Congratulations upon your appointment to work for the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service Employees Organization wants to welcome you to the NWS, NOAA, and DOC. The NWS has been supplying professional weather services to the citizens of the United States since February 9, 1870. 

The NWSEO has been serving as the voice of the NWS employees since July 1976. Joining the labor organization that represents you before the agency you work for and the U.S. Congress is your protected right as a Federal employee. 

As an employee of the National Weather Service you will experience an exciting, but challenging career. In your service to the American public, you will face many stressful situations. Those of you starting out as Met Interns or an HMT will struggle through the effects of working rotational shifts. Be assured that as members of NWSEO, your co-workers will be there to help you in any way we can.

Why should you join NWSEO?

Your new colleagues in the NWS who are members of NWSEO pay and provide you with workplace protections that are provided in the NWS/NWSEO Collective Bargaining Agreement . But that is only part of the representation that NWSEO provides to its members.

NWSEO has embarked on an ambitious multi-year program to train each and every field steward who is on the front lines of defending your rights. We have spent well over $120,000 over the past three years holding over ten training sessions taught by our General Counsel Richard Hirn. We are continuing to offer these courses as new stewards are elected each year. 

Some recent examples of successful NWSEO representation include:

  • Winning temporary promotions for forecasters filling in on higher graded positions.

  • Ensuring that the agency comply with Federal law and not force employees to travel without compensation.

  • Successfully challenging the Pipeline Team recommendation to eliminate the HMT position.

  • Settling an arbitration case which resulted in the conversion of RFC Electronic Technicians to the computer specialists classification -- giving them an IT raise of least $2000.

  • Negotiating protection for Met Interns applying for Journeyman openings in a recent MOU.

  • Elimination of the NWS proposed Baseline Proficiency Standards which amounted to a secondary performance appraisal system being imposed on NWS employees.

  • Negotiation and continued working to promote a more family friendly workplace in the NWS through alternative and compressed work scheduling.

Membership in NWSEO is in your best interest and will protect you during your career with the NWS. To keep informed on all NWS representation matters visit us here on our web site --

www.nwseo.org

How to Join NWSEO

You may now join NWSEO two ways. One is through bi-weekly payroll deduction by filling out an SF 1187. Or you can join with complete privacy and security through our on-line credit card application process.

Just click here if you wish to join by credit card and begin your membership in the only organization dedicated to protecting you and your job, and your workplace rights; as well as promoting your pay, your benefits and your working conditions.

Membership in NWSEO can be individually controlled securely and privately from your own PC. Payment by Credit Card will ensure the privacy that a lot of our bargaining unit members desire. The NWSEO is delighted to offer this option to members who wish to protect their privacy by paying dues directly to the organization instead of through NOAA payroll deductions.

Using the on-line credit card application, either on a monthly subscription basis or one annual payment of your dues is possible. Your membership dues are only one percent of your annual base pay, up to a maximum of $527.84 for a year or $43.97 per month.

Employees may continue to join NWSEO through Payroll Deduction by filling out a Standard Form 1187 by providing the necessary information in boxes 1, 2 , 4, and 5, then signing and dating the form at the bottom. The form may be mailed to NWSEO or faxed to 703 293 9653.

Instructions for requesting to start or stop a payroll deduction can be found in the Memorandum of Understanding with NOAA.

Employees may also pay their dues directly to NWSEO by writing a check made out to "NWSEO" and mailing it to:

NWSEO
601 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W.
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20004

NWSEO is the certified union representative for employees of:

  • the National Weather Service; 
  • the Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service;  
  • attorneys in the NOAA Office of General Counsel; 
  • the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory of the Office of  Oceanographic & Atmospheric Research; and
  • the Aircraft Operations Center of the Office of  Marine and Aviation Operations,

except those excluded by law, i.e., supervisors, managers, confidential employees, or those engaged in personnel work in other than a purely clerical capacity.

The power to unite is stronger than the power to divide