AFSA FCS Vice President Update: December 21, 2005

From your FCS AFSA team, both Will Center and I wish you a Merry Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!

Have you ever wondered under what framework AFSA and its Commerce VPs and reps work? what agreements are in force between AFSA and the Foreign Commercial Service and its approximately 250 bargaining unit members? what the specifics are on rules for tenure and promotion (precepts), on mandatory retirement (TIC), on assignments, on benefits & allowances, language training, domestic assignments, and a host of other issues?

Wonder no longer! Visit <http://www.afsa.org/cspage.cfm> and check out the AFSA-Commerce Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and - for the first time - a comprehensive list of all the Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) signed by AFSA and management over the last 10 years.