“All, Yesterday afternoon MESA received official notification from MSFC Center Director Pelfrey that MSFC will comply with Executive Order 14343 – Further Exclusions From the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program (link below). This may be the last email I am able to send to you in this fashion as one of your union representatives as MSFC is choosing to comply with the President’s determination that your jobs are primarily “intelligence, counterintelligence, investigatory, or national security” in nature. Therefore, MSFC will be canceling our labor contract, which was ratified by MESA membership and approved by NASA last year…

Some of you may – rightfully – be asking what [Marshall Engineers and Scientists Association] is doing about all this. We will still be here. We will continue to provide advice, assistance, and support – it will just have to be during your lunch break, after hours, or on weekends. We are training new stewards and building multiple committees to focus on various aspects of our representational duties – keeping you informed, helping organize local support networks, conducting surveys, advocating on your behalf to management and elected representatives, and coordinating with our partners in the North Alabama Area Labor Council (NAALC), the NASA Council of IFPTE Locals (NCIL), and the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE).