Union Notices
Two New Interim Council Vacancies Now Open
for
Nominations
Constitution Listening Sessions Continue this
Week
Nominations Sought for Finance
Committee
We Want Your
Feedback
Call for Communiqué
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DISCLAIMER
Two New Interim Council Vacancies Now Open
for
Nominations
There are two new vacancies on the Interim Council. The interim council is
in the process of constructing the union’s constitution
and we need all voices heard, thus it is important for these
seats to be filled.
The seats are as
follows:
Health Care:
Any bargaining unit member of the health care team may
nominate themselves to fill the Health Care Team’s
position on the IC.
Hispanic Diversity:
Any bargaining unit member may nominate themselves for
the Hispanic Diversity seat.
For
either seat, applicants will have until August 25 at 8 p.m. eastern time to
submit their name in nomination to Elections Committee Chair
Todd Anderson, andersontd@gao.gov. Should there be more than one applicant for a position;
an election will be held to pick the
winner.
Constitution Listening Sessions Continue this
Week
As a reminder, the draft GAO Union
Constitution outline is now available for bargaining unit
members’ review and input, and we would like to request
your input on it.
To seek your input, we will be holding multiple listening
sessions in August and September in both the field and
headquarters.
Lunchtime listening sessions will be held at noon on Thursday,
August 28 in Headquarters room 2T59. So
far, the following field office listening sessions have been
scheduled (all times local to each office):
-Atlanta & Norfolk, Tuesday August
19 at noon
-Seattle, Wednesday August 20 at
10 a.m.
-Denver, Thursday August 21 at
11:30
a.m.
-Chicago, Monday August 25 at
11:30 a.m.
-Boston, Tuesday August 26 at
noon
-Los Angeles (and SF via phone),
Thursday September 4 at noon
Additional information can be found on our website at
http://www.gaoanalysts.org/HTML_Pages/Constitution_Listening_Revised.htm. Please contact the constitution
committee through Stephen Ulrich (ulrichs@gao.gov) or
your representative if you have any comments, questions, or
concerns regarding the constitution or the listening
sessions.
Nominations Sought for Finance
Committee
The GAO
Employees Association is currently seeking nominations for the
Finance Committee. The committee will have nine members, five
who are members of the Interim Council (IC) and four Bargaining
Unit (BU) Members. Treasurer Kristi Karls will fill one of the
IC positions, so four IC and four BU positions need to be
filled. If more than four apply for either the IC or BU
positions, the IC will vote to select members. If you are
interested in serving on the committee, please send an e-mail to
Elections Committee Chair Todd D. Anderson, andersontd@gao.gov, indicating that you are nominating yourself for a
position on the committee. You may also include a statement
about why you are seeking the position, but it is not required.
The deadline for submitting nominations is Friday, August 22 at
8 p.m.
eastern time. If you have any questions about the committee,
please contact Kristi Karls,
karlsk@gao.gov.
We Want Your
Feedback
The
Communications Committee would like your feedback regarding
articles you'd like to see, questions you’d like answered,
or any other suggestions. Do you have a question or concern that
you think others in the bargaining unit might share? Do you have
a perspective on Union-management relations that you think might
provide insight to others in the bargaining unit? Do you have an
idea for a regular column? Do you know someone who should be
receiving the newsletter, but isn’t? This type of feedback
will help to make the newsletter relevant and keep us from
becoming just another “Delete” item in your
mailbox! Please
send your comments to Charlie Willson
(willsonc@gao.gov).
Call for Communiqué
Contributions
If you are scheduling a Union-related
meeting or have a Union-related announcement and would like to
ensure that the information is circulated throughout the
bargaining unit, please forward the information to Lise Levie
(leviel@gao.gov) by 6
p.m. ET on Thursday, August 21, for inclusion in the
next edition.
