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CBP, NTEU Develop Plan on Improving Employee Morale

The National Treasury Employees Union and CBP jointly devised a plan that is meant to improve the morale among CBP employees, the NTEU said (here). The plans will help create "a more engaged workforce" and enhance "the working relationship between…

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Office of Field Operations (OFO) and NTEU," it said. The plans will eventually be presented to the OFO Labor-Management Forum for recommendations and approval, said the NTEU. Among the project plans are to create standardized OFO leadership training and to "mandate quarterly port level Labor Management Relations Committees" that will provide "joint NTEU/CBP messaging on the importance and benefits of informal collaboration," it said. CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske has promised to work on improving morale at the agency (see 14040301). The NTEU represents some CBP employees.