- CFPB, union deadlocked in negotiations over pay band increase
- Agency collective bargaining agreement expired in December
The head of a powerful federal employee union blasted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra for ignoring several communications and an offer to meet amid acrimonious negotiations for a new labor contract.
Chopra has “avoided all communication” with union leadership, including a proposal to meet last weekend, as negotiations for a new contract with the CFPB’s employees remain stalled, National Treasury Employees Union President Doreen Greenwald said in a Wednesday letter. The letter, obtained by Bloomberg Law, calls Chopra’s lack of communication “unacceptable.”
The letter comes as the collective bargaining agreement between the CFPB and NTEU Chapter 335 expired on Dec. 31, meaning CFPB employees have been working without a contract for nearly three months.
“I believed you when you said you valued CFPB employees and that you respected NTEU as CFPB’s exclusive representative. However, your actions have not supported your words,” Greenwald said in the letter, which was also sent to the director of the Office of Personnel Management, Kiran Ahuja, and Jason Miller, the deputy director of management at the Office of Management and Budget.
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