O'HARE'S U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE OPERATION TO BE TOASTED
AT CLINTON ADMINISTRATION MEETING

Chicago, IL. -- Chicago ain't no "toddlin' town," at least when it comes to the impressive gait of the U.S. Customs Service run to become a success story of the Clinton Administration's effort to reinvent government.

To showcase the labor-management accomplishments that have improved service to the import business community, members of the media, union leaders and members of the Clinton Administration's National Partnership Council (NPC) will be given a tour of the Chicago district's Customs Service operation at O'Hare International Airport.

The tour will include stops at the Customs Cargo Facility and a look at the service's canine corps for a demonstration of contraband drug search methods. The tour will begin:

Wednesday, April 19
9:15 a.m.
Customs Cargo Facility at Liberty Business Park
2571 Road
Elk Grove Village

The Customs Service at O'Hare has used labor-management partnership to expedite the flow of goods to the showrooms of American retailers and floors of U.S. factories by streamlining inspection procedures and relocating downtown Customs offices to the airport, creating a virtual "one-stop shopping" operation. Roughly 2,000 shipments of imported goods move through O'Hare each day.

The NPC, chaired by U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Jim King, was established by President Clinton to forge labor-management partnerships in government and create a positive work place environment where management and the career civil service unite to improve service to taxpayers and the business community.

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