NTEU Survey

Use Bilingual Skills on the Job?

NTEU Wants to Make Sure You Get the Award You Deserve

NTEU needs your help to make sure IRS employees who use their bilingual skills on the job

get the awards pay they deserve.

After requesting awards data from the IRS, NTEU learned that the agency did not properly

distribute bilingual awards for fiscal years 2009 through 2011. The union has responded

with two national grievances seeking retroactive awards payouts, but first needs all

bargaining unit employees who regularly use their bilingual skills at work to take a brief

survey.

NTEU's grievance covers two groups of employees. The first group consists of those employees whose position descriptions included bilingual skills from 2009 to 2011, but did not receive a bilingual award. The second group consists of employees who were not

covered by bilingual position descriptions in those years but should have been compensated with bilingual awards because they regularly speak more than one language at work. NTEU is urging both groups of employees to take this survey.

The deadline to take NTEU's survey is Jan. 6, 2012. Please be sure to complete it on your own time and not during work hours. To take the survey, click here or visit the Union

Office section of NTEU.org at www.nteu.org/UnionOffice.