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Out election results are in. We also have a new legal counsel for the first time since the 1980s after Kim Mann’s retirement. See the Executive Committee Page for more information.

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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