Ames Federal Employees Union

Excellent article in Federal Computer Week, published Monday. Good thing AFEU has requested negotiations of the implementation of HSPD-12; we hope to ensure that no Civil Servant has to provide any more than is required by law. More likely to come, soon.

So are we, and the Union is going to be requesting negotiations on the impact and implementation of the switchover to NOMAD. Some of what we are already concerned about include:

• financial impacts to the end-users
• privacy of e-mails and rights of employees to be notified when their e-mail is being inspected
• protections for employees adversely affected by performance and reliability issues
• guarantees of support for a variety of tools and platforms (i.e. Linux, Thunderbird, etc.)
• guarantees of support for e-mail forwarding for old e-mail addresses
• discussions of space allowances and limitations

This is an opportunity for you to raise your issues and to have the Union negotiate with management on reasonable accommodation to your issues. Either add a comment to this blog entry (comments are moderated, so they may not show up immediately) or send e-mail to negotiate@afeu.org .

– Your AFEU NOMAD Negotiations Team