Recent Issues
The IAM affiliation, however, helped to significantly strength NFFE in the longer term. New raids on NFFE membership no longer occurred, and the union's administrative and financial resources greatly improved. NFFE is now considered "a key player in backing collective bargaining and appeal rights of employees." As of 2007, NFFE represented about 100,000 federal workers.
More recently, NFFE waged a lengthy legal battle against the U.S. Department of Defense's new National Security Personnel System. NFFE won several significant rulings in the legal fight but did not prevent the system's implementation, and the union began to pursue legislative remedies in Congress instead.
The union also opposed the Iraq Study Group's recommendation that the Bush administration force government civilians to serve in Iraq.
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