Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email NTEU to Push for Pay, Benefits, and Protections in 2021 National Treasury Employees Union National President Tony Reardon said that he has seen a “mixed bag” in terms of agency efforts to comply with President Biden’s workforce executive order. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents federal employees in dozens of departments and agencies across government, will focus its lobbying efforts this year on improving employees’ pay, protecting their benefits and due process rights, and ensuring their workplaces are safe from COVID-19. At the union’s annual legislative conference, NTEU National President Tony Reardon celebrated the end of a Trump administration that attacked both civil servants and the unions that represent them, but said much work remains to undo the damage of the last four years. This year, Reardon said the union will focus its lobbying on four key priorities: improving federal employee pay and benefits, ensuring feds are safe from COVID-19 when they return to federal facilities, reinforcing civil service protections and increasing agency funding after years of the Trump White House seeking to slash departmental budgets with varying degrees of success.