CBP Employee Union Reaches Deal on Realignment of Import Specialists in CEEs
The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents CBP employees, and CBP have agreed to terms for the realignment of local CBP import specialist commodity teams within the Centers of Excellence and Expertise (CEEs), said the union in a March 6 alert to its members. "Realignment will occur as a bid and rotation process, and the union has made sure that employees will have a say in the process and that staffing and work quality will not be adversely impacted," the union said. CBP recently signaled it will increasingly rely on the CEEs for import processing when it announced plans for three of the CEEs to take on the processing for their entire industries (see 14030613).
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Import specialists, regardless of grade, "will be permitted to participate in the bid and rotation process," for the realignment," said the union. "The employees will be placed in one of the 10 Centers based on their current team. Among other terms of the agreement, all senior and non-senior import specialist positions will be filled in this initial bid. CBP will provide the union with 30 days’ advance notice once it is ready to begin local implementation."