WASHINGTON, Aug. 16,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Weather Service
Employees Organization's (NWSEO) National Council voted to adopt a
resolution to endorse Vice-President Kamala
Harris and Minnesota
Governor Tim Walz, for President and
Vice-President of the United States.
"Vice President Harris has been a tireless advocate for union
workers and their families. We can all benefit from her
leadership," said JoAnn Becker,
NWSEO National President.
Back in 2019 during the federal government shutdown and hardship
on federal workers caused by former President Trump, then Senator
Harris challenged the president to end the shutdown and pay
National Weather Service employees.
During her Senate tenure, she advocated on behalf of union
workers, fought to keep the government funded to prevent a
disastrous shutdown, defended safe staffing levels and collective
bargaining rights across federal agencies, and protected the
diversity and human rights offices of federal agencies.
As Vice-President, Harris chaired the White House Task Force on
Worker Organizing and Empowerment that had a guiding principle – a
commitment to worker rights, including the right to a free and fair
choice to join a union and to dignity in the workplace. Contrast
her leadership on worker rights against her opponent, former
President Trump, who campaigns to create a "Schedule F" to allow
the replacement of thousands of career civil servants by political
appointees, and "Project 2025" that would eliminate federal
employee collective bargaining rights, remove civil service
protections of career public servants, commercialize the National
Weather Service and terminate its parent agency, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NWSEO is the federal labor union that represents the collective
bargaining rights of meteorologists, hydrologists and technical
experts at the National Weather Service as well as, environmental
scientists and specialists throughout the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who track and command weather and
environmental satellites; who maintain and crew the nation's
hurricane hunter aircraft; and the attorneys in the NOAA Office of
General Counsel who enforce the nation's fisheries and
environmental protection laws. NWSEO proudly represents the most
NOAA employees across the entire agency.
Contact: Sherri
McGraw
(202) 951-0991
comdirector@nwseo.org
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SOURCE National Weather Service Employees Organization