What Do Marshall Employees Have to Gain By Becoming Union Members?
by Nedra Hundley
Support Technical Excellence.
MESA supports and encourages technical excellence. NASA develops and manages risky technology. We want and need the best and the brightest engineers and scientists. Under the current leadership, MESA has worked to convince MSFC and NASA leadership to recruit, encourage, and promote technical excellence. MESA participated in the establishment of the Dual Career process which is benefiting our technical specialists.
National Impact
MESA, as a local for a national Union has the ability to resist attacks on our pay and benefits. Our current MESA President, Wesley Darbro, was elected President of the NASA Council, which addresses NASA-wide issues for the IFPTE. The NASA Council of IFPTE Locals is an Organization whose members, as the name implies, are the Unions in NASA affiliated with the International Federation of Technical and Professional Engineers who represent the Scientists and Engineers.
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