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Please update your home mailing address
Hello all, does the NAAE have your current home mailing address? If not, please send it to our Secretary, Patricia Claves, patricia.a.claves@usda.gov. Our latest newsletter will be mailed out soon, and it contains a lot of important information, including nomination ballots for our next election. We want to be sure you receive the newsletter and …
September 13, 2023 | Call for Election Committee Volunteers: Do not Delay!
Update: Deadline to volunteer for the election committee in Wednesday, October 18. Our election for national officers is approaching. To conduct this election, the Executive Committee of NAAE is seeking volunteers to serve as the Election Committee. We need a minimum of 3 people, all NAAE members in good standing, and all in one location. …
September 13, 2023 | Call for Election Committee Volunteers: Do not Delay! Read More »
August 29, 2023: Updated Executive Committee
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.
March 9, 2023 | COVID-19 Update
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 …
February 13, 2023 | NAAE Preserves Lateral-Transfer Rights for BUES
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 …
February 13, 2023 | NAAE Preserves Lateral-Transfer Rights for BUES Read More »
February 6, 2023 | NAAE Assists SITCAs Gain Remote-Work Eligible Status
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, …
February 6, 2023 | NAAE Assists SITCAs Gain Remote-Work Eligible Status Read More »
June 13, 2022 | Updated Executive Committee
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.
May 9, 2022 | No Random Drug Testing for BUEs
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 …
May 6, 2022 | HPAI Mandatory TDYs
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 …