NAAE Admin

Hello all, does the NAAE have your current home mailing address? If not, please send it to our Secretary, Roberta (Bobbi) Zimmerman, Roberta.e.zimmerman@usda.gov. This will ensure that you receive any urgent mailings, newsletters, and voting ballots. We want to be sure you receive all of this important information.

Attention Bargaining Unit Employees! Due to recent transitions, we have new contacts for the Executive Committee. Please go to our Executive Committee page, here, to see the new contacts.

The Public Health Emergency (PHE) for Covid-19 is coming to an end on May 11, 2023. If your management made changes to your Tour of Duty’s or waived local agreements due to the PHE then these agreements and your tour should be re-established to Pre-pandemic levels. If you have any problems with local managers, contact

An Export Certification Specialist (ECS) wanted to transfer to a vacancy for a Plant Health Safeguarding Specialist (PHSS). The ECS applied and was selected for the vacancy as a lateral transfer (at the same grade and step level). Before the paperwork was completed, the Agency reneged on the transfer offer, deciding instead to treat it

In early 2022, NAAE filed a class-action grievance on behalf of all SITC Analysts when the Agency refused to designate their position as “remote work eligible” – only telework eligible – despite the SITCAs having worked essentially remotely for two-plus years during the pandemic without even an allegation of poor or a decrease in performance,

Attention Bargaining Unit Employees! Due to the NAAE elections, recent retirements, and other transitions, we have new contacts for the Executive Committee. Please go to our Executive Committee page, here, to see the new contacts.

Attention Bargaining Unit Employees! USDA is set to resume random drug testing for employees. If you are: 1) a bargaining unit employee, and 2) asked to undergo a random drug test, your rights as a Bargaining Unit Employee have been broken. Many years back, NAAE fought for your privacy and was issued a permanent injunction

Bargaining Unit Members! Get ready! As an emergency response Agency, APHIS employees can be “called-out” to assist on emergency TDYs. The US is currently facing an unprecedented Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak and mandatory emergency deployments are about to occur within the ranks of PPQ. NAAE is working with the Agency and advising Bargaining

We’re back! Join us in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the 2022 NAAE Convention! NAAE Convention May 22-25, 2022Embassy Suites 17th Street- Rooms: $1591100 SE 17th St, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316For more information contact Esther Serrano. 2022 NAAE Convention Flyer

Bargaining Unit Employees! Please contact us immediately if your telework or remote work agreement was denied. You most likely have been denied contrary to the guidance within the Departmental Regulation and entirely against the spirit of the Secretary’s vision for a new USDA. Spread the word!