U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce
Directory of Unions and Associations
with Exclusive Recognition
in the Federal Service
January 2004
This directory lists national and international unions and associations which have, either directly or through local units, exclusive recognition with departments and agencies of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and the U. S. Postal Service. The abbreviations used are, in most instances, the official ones for these organizations, and are used in Office of Personnel Management reports and publications.
The listing is in alphabetical order by abbreviation of the organization name. Listings for the U. S. Postal Service and the Metal Trades Department (AFL-CIO) are found on the last 4 pages.
- (AAE) National Association of Aeronautical Examiners (Ind)
Naval Air Station, Bldg. 3221
Pensacola, FL 32508Phone: (904) 452-2574
President: Brad Crosby- (ACT) Association of Civilian Technicians (Ind)
12510B Lake Ridge Drive
Lake Ridge, VA 22192
Phone: (703) 690-1330
President: Thomas G. Bastas- (AFGE) American Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO)
80 F St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 639-6435
Fax: (202) 639-6490
President: John Gage- (AFSA) American Foreign Service Association (Ind.)
2101 E St., NW
Washington, DC 20037
Phone: (202) 647-8160
Fax: (202) 338-8244
President: John Naland- (AFSCME) American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
1625 L. St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: (202) 429-1000
Fax: (202) 429-1102
President: Gerald McEntee- (AFU) Alaska Fishermen's Union (Ind.)
2505 St. Avenue
Room 3
Seattle, WA 98121
Phone: (206) 441-3425
President: Mark T. Coles- (AMC) American Maritime Congress
1300 I Street, NW
Suite 250 West
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 842-4900
Fax: (202) 842-3492
Director: Glorin Tosi- (ANA) American Nurses Association (Ind.)
600 Maryland Avenue, SW
Suite 100 West
Washington, DC 20024-2571
Phone: (202) 554-4444 ext.7129
Fax: (202) 651-7343
President: Barbara A. Blakeney- (BNA) Balboa Registered Nurses Association (Ind.)
United Nurses Association of California
NUHHCE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO
300 S. Park Avenue
Suite 840
Pomona, CA 91766-1501
Phone: (909) 620-7749- (BPAT) International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades of the United States and Canada (AFL-CIO)
United Nations Building
1750 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 637-0700
Fax: (202) 637-0771
President: James A. Williams- (CBTC) Columbia Basin Trades Council (AFL-CIO)
2800 1st Avenue
Room 301
Seattle, WA 98121-99352
Phone: (206) 443-1239
Fax: (206) 448-0811
President: Steve Angenbroad- (CIR) Committee of Interns and Residents (Ind.)
386 Park Avenue South
Room 1502
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 725-5500
Fax: (212) 779-2913
Executive Director: March Levy- (CJA) United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (AFL-CIO)
101 Constitution Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 546-6206
Fax: (202) 543-5724
President: Douglas J. McCarron- (CPTC) Columbia Power Trades Council (AFL-CIO)
17200 NE Sacramento Street
Grisham, OR 97230
Phone: (503) 262-9125
Fax: (503) 262-9947
President: Jerry Moss- (CREA) Congressional Research Employees Association - Affiliated with International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 75 (AFL-CIO)
Library of Congress Research Service
101 Independence Ave SE
Room LM 412
Washington, DC 20540
Phone: (202) 707-7636
Fax: (202) 707-8068
President: Dennis Roth- (ESCA) Engineers and Scientists of California - Affiliated with Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (AFL-CIO)
1350 Frank Agaua Plaza
8th floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 238-8320
Fax: (510) 238-8950
Business Manager: Ken Jones- (FEA) Federal Education Association (Ind.)
1201 16th Street NW.
Suite 117
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 822-7850
Fax: (202) 822-7816
President: Sheridan Pearce
Executive Director: H. T. Nguyen- (FFA) Federal Firefighters Association (Ind.)
1750 New York Avenue, NW.
Third Floor
Washington DC, 20006
Phone: (202) 737-8484
Fax: (202) 737-8418
President: Harold Schaitberger- (FLEA) Federal Law Enforcement Association
350 Old Country Road, Suite 101
Garden City, NY 11530
Phone: (516) 873-8600
President: Richard Gallo- (FOP) Fraternal Order of Police (Ind.)
1320 G Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone (202) 544-4813
Fax: (202) 544-5918
Chairman: Leon Capps- (GCIU) Graphic Communications International Union (AFL-CIO)
1900 L Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 462-1400
Fax: (202) 721-0600
President: George Tedeschi- (IAFF) International Association of Fire Fighters (AFL-CIO)
1750 New York Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 737-8484
Fax: (202) 737-8418
President: Harold Schaitberger- (IAM) International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (AFL-CIO)
9000 Machinists Place
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-2687
Phone: (301) 967-4500
Fax: (301) 967-4588
President: Robert Buffenbarger- (IATC) International Association of Tool Craftsmen (Ind.)
3591 13th Avenue
Racine, WI 53403
Phone: (309) 782-5776
Secretary: Michael Kubarth- (IATSE) International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada (AFL-CIO)
1430 Broadway
20th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 730-1770
Fax: (212)730-7809
President: Thomas C. Short- (IBEW) International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL-CIO)
1125 15th Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 833-7000
Fax (202) 467-6316
President: Edwin D. Hill- (IBFO) International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers (AFL-CIO)
1023 - 15th Street NW
10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 962-0981
Fax : (202) 872-1222
President: George J. Francisco Jr.- (IBT) International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America (AFL-CIO)
25 Louisiana Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 624-6800
Fax: (202-624-8110
President: James P. Hoffa- (ICWU) International Chemical Workers Union (AFL-CIO) of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
1655 West Market Street
Akron, OH 44313-7095
Phone: (330) 867-2444
Fax: (330) 867-0544
President: Larry V. Gregoire- (IEF) Indian Educators Federation (AFL-CIO)
2301 Yale Blvd., SE
Suite E-1
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Phone: (505) 243-4088
Fax: (505) 243-4098
President: Patrick Carr- (IFPTE) International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (AFL-CIO)
8630 Fenton Street
Suite 400
Silver Springs, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 565-9016
Fax: (301)-565-0018
President: Gregory Junemann- (IGUA) International Guard Union of America (Ind.)
Red River Army Depot
Bowie, TX 75507-5000
Phone: (903) 334-3333
Fax (903) 334-4115
President: Don Collins- (IUOE) International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL-CIO)
1125 17th Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 429-9100
Fax (202) 778-2616
President: Frank Hanley- (IUPA) International Union of Police Associations (AFL-CIO)
1421 Prince Street
Suite 330
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 549-7473
President: Sam Cabral- (LIUNA) Laborers' International Union of North America (AFL-CIO)
905 16th St. NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 737-8320
Fax: (202) 737-2754
President: Terrence O'Sullivan- (MAP) Michigan Association of Police (Ind.)
27704 Frankland
Southfield, MI 48034
Phone: (248) 304-8800
Fax (248)304-8810
President: Part Biadal- (MEBA) National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (AFL-CIO)
444 North Capitol Street NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 638-5355
Fax (202) 638-5369
President: Ron Davis- (M.P.) International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots (ILA-Marine Division) - Affiliated with International Longshoremen's Association (AFL-CIO)
700 Maritime Boulevard
Linthicum Heights, MD 21090
Phone: (410) 850-8700
Fax (410) 850-0973
President: Timothy A. Brown- (MSAA) Methods and Standards Analysts' Association (Ind.)
P. O. Box 4611
Warrington, FL 32507
Phone: (904) 452-4425
President: Tom Clarkson- (MSPB/PA) Merit Systems Protection Board/ Professional Association (Ind.)
New York Field Office MSPB
26 Federal Plaza, 31st Floor
Suite 3137A
New York, NY 10278
Phone: (202) 653-6772
Chairman: Ben Edreich- (NAAE) National Association of Agricultural Employees (Ind.)
P. O. Box 31143
Honolulu, HI 96820-1143
Phone: (808) 861-8449
Fax; (808) 861-8469
President: Michael Randall- (NAATA) National Army Air Technicians Association - Affiliated with American Federation of Government Employees
123 Ploch Road
Clifton, NJ 07013
Phone: (201) 835-9219
President: Thomas R. Pocock- (NAATS) National Association of Air Traffic Specialists (Ind.)
11303 Amherst Avenue
Suite 4
Wheaton, MD 20902
Phone: (301) 933-6228
Fax: (301) 933-3902
President: Wally Pike- (NAGE) National Association of Government Employees and International Brotherhood of Police Officers - Affiliated with Service Employees' International Union (AFL-CIO)
159 Burgin Parkway
Quincy, MA 02169
Phone: (617) 376-0220
Fax: (617) 376-0285
President: David Holway- (NAGI) National Association of Government Inspectors- IFPTE Local 8 (Ind.)
P.O. Box 181352
Coronado, CA 92178-1352
Phone: (619) 545-2155
Fax: (619) 437-9131
President: Earl Bryers- (NAPFE) National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (Ind.)
1628 11th Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 939-6325
Fax: (202) 939-6389
President: James McGee- (NATCA) National Air Traffic Controllers Association - (MEBA/AFL-CIO)
1325 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 628-5451
Fax: (202) 628-5767
President: John Carr- (NEA) National Education Association (Ind.)
1201 16th Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 833-4000
Fax: 202-822-7023
President: Robert Chase- (NFFE) National Federation of Federal Employees (Ind.)
1016 16th Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 862-4400
Fax: (202) 862-4432
President: Richard Brown- (NLRBPA) National Labor Relations Board Professional Association (Ind.)
1099 14th St., NW.
Suite 9120
Washington, DC 20570
Phone: (202) 273-1749
Fax: (202) 273-4286
President: Leslie Rossen- (NLRBU) National Labor Relations Board Union (Ind.)
26 Federal Plaza, Room 3614
New York, NY 10278-0104
Phone: (212) 264-0319
Fax: (212) 264-2450
President: Eric Brooks- (NTEU) National Treasury Employees Union (Ind.)
901 E Street, NW.
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 783-4444
Fax: (202) 628-3930
President: Colleen Kelley- (NULI) National Union of Labor Investigators (Ind.)
(Formerly the National Union of Compliance Officers)
Room 831 - 1240 East 9th St.
Cleveland, OH 44199
Phone: (216) 357-5455
Fax: (216) 357-5425
President: Leonard Drinkard- (NWSEO) National Weather Service Employees Organization - Affiliated with Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (AFL-CIO)
12 Jennings Place
Cohoes, New York 12047
Phone: (518) 237-3398
Email: nwseo@capital.net
President: Paul Greaves- (OAA) National Operators Analysts Association - Affiliated with International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (AFL-CIO)
8630 Fenton Street
Suite 400
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone (301) 566-9016
President: Paul E. Almeida- (OFT) Overseas Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO)
555 NJ Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 011-390-586-503418
President: Marie Sainz-Funaro- (OPEIU) Office and Professional Employees International Union (AFL-CIO)
265 W. 14th Street
Suite 610
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 675-3210
Fax: (212) 727-3466
President: Michael Goodwin- (PAACE) Professional Association of Aeronautical Center Employees
5710 SW 63rd Building L
Room 130
Oklahoma City, OK 73169-6974
Phone: (405) 954-3685 / 954-3220
Fax: (405) 954-3574
President: Samuel B. Hendrix, III- (PASS) Professional Airways System Specialists (AFL-CIO)
1150 17th St, NW.
Suite 702
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 293-7277
Fax: (202) 293-7727
President: Michael Fanfalone- (PBA) Police Benevolent Association (Ind.)
1900 Brannan Road
McDonough, GA 30253
Phone: 1-(800)-827-2215
Fax: (770) 389-4572
President: Jack Roberts
Office Manager: Renee Dickson- (PESO) Professional Engineers and Scientists Organization - Affilliated with International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers- (AFL-CIO)
P. O. Box 180866
Coronado, CA 92178
Phone: (619) 545-2710
Fax: (619) 545-2992
President: Jim Leland- (PIU) Pace International Union (Former Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union (AFL-CIO)
255 Union Boulevard
Lakewood, CO 80228
Phone: (303) 987-2229
President: Boyd Young- (POPA) Patent Office Professional Association (Ind.)
P. O. Box 15848
Arlington, VA 22215
Phone: (703) 308-0818
Fax: (703) 308-0818
President: Ronald J. Stern
Vice-President: Lawrence J. Oresky- (PPDSE) International Plate Printers, Die Stampers and Engravers Union of North America (AFL-CIO)
14th & C Streets, SW.
Washington, DC 20228
Phone: (202) 874-2693
President: Daniel Bradley- (PPF) United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada (AFL-CIO)
901 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 628-5823
Fax: (202) 628-5024
President: Martin J. Maddaloni
Secretary-Treasurer: Thomas A. Patchelo- (PPMWS) Printing, Publishing, & Media Workers of the CWA (Communications Workers of America) - Formerly the International Typographical Union (AFL-CIO)
501 3rd Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20001-2797
Phone: (202) 434-1100
Fax: (202)434-1375
President: Morton Bahr
Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Easterling- (RWDSU) Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Unions (AFL-CIO)
30 East 29th Street
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 684-5300
Fax:(212) 779-2809
President: Stuart Appelbaum
Secretary-Treasurer: Charlie N. Hall Sr.- (SEIU) Service Employees International Union (AFL-CIO)
1313 L Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 898-3200
Fax: (202) 898-3402
President: Andy Stern
Secretary-Treasurer: Anna Burger- (SIU) Seafarers' International Union of North America (AFL-CIO)
5201 Auth Way
Camp Springs, MD 20746
Phone: (301) 899-0675
Fax: (301) 702-6060
President: Michael Sacco
Executive Vice-President: John Say- (SMW) Sheet Metal Workers International Association (AFL-CIO)
1750 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 783-5880
Fax: (202) 662-0894
President: Michael Sullivan- (SPORT) SPORT Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Ind.)
44438 8th Street, East
Lancaster, CA 93535
Phone: (805) 277-3555
President: Rex Campbell- (TSA) Technical Skills Association (Ind.)
P. O. Box 69
North Highland, CA 95660
Phone: (916) 643-4639
President: David Gatlin- (UFCWU) United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (AFL-CIO)
1775 K Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 223-3111
Fax: (202) 466-1562
President: Douglas H. Dority- (UNAC) United Nurses Associations of California (AFL-CIO)
NUHHCE, AFSCME
300 S. Park Avenue
Suite 840
Pomona, CA 91766
Phone: (909) 620-7749
Fax: (909) 620-9119
President: Cathy Sackman, RN
Vice-President: Sonia Moseley, RN- (UPSA) United Police and Security Association (Ind.)
Defense Distribution Region West
Tracy Site
In care of ASCW-BPST
Tracey, CA 95376
Phone (209) 832-9302
President: James E. Dukas Jr.
Vice President: James Thompson- (UPTO) United Power Trades Organization (Ind.)
942 Prune Orchard Drive
Colfax, WA 99111
Phone: (541) 367-5433
President: Travis Brock
Secretary: Claude Leinbach- (UPWC) Union of Public Works Centers (Ind.)
P. O. Box 24622
Main Post Office
Oakland, CA 94623
Phone: (510) 235-7352
President: Maxon Powell- (VASNC) Veterans Affairs Staff Nurses Council
ATTN: Nursing Service (118)
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
5000 W. National Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53295
Phone: (414) 384-2000 Ext. 1705
President: Glen Grippen
Vice-President: Del Slowik- (WPESTA) West Point Elementary School Teachers Association (Ind.)
705A Barry Road
West Point, NY 10996-1196
Phone: (914) 938-2923
President: Dorthea McGuigan
POSTAL ORGANIZATIONS
- (APWU) American Postal Workers Union (AFL-CIO)
1300 L Street, NW.
Washington, DC 2005
Phone: (202)842-4200
Fax: (202) 842-4297
President: Willis Barris
General Executive Vice President: Cliff Guffey- (NALC) National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO)
100 Indiana Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC 20001
Phone (202) 393-4695
Fax: (202) 737-1540
President: William H. Young
Secretary-Treasurer: Jane Bruendel- (NAPS) National Association of Postal Supervisors (Ind.)
1727 King Street
Suite 400
Alexandria, VA 22314-2753
Phone: (703) 836-9660
Fax: (703) 836-9665
President: Vincent Palladino
Executive Vice President: Ted Kedding- (NAPUS) National Association of Postmasters of the United States (Ind.)
8 Hebert Street
Alexandria, VA 22305
Phone: (703) 683-9027
Fax: (703) 683-6820
President: Wally Olihovik
Executive Director: Charles Moser- (NLP) National League of Postmasters (Ind.)
1023 North Royal Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-1569
Phone: (703) 548-5922
Fax: (703) 863-8937
President: Steve D. Lemora
Executive Director: Brenda Tanner- (NPMHU) National Postal Mail Handlers Union
11 Conneticut Avenue, NW.
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 833-9095
Fax: (202) 833-0008
National President: John F. Hegarty
National Secretary-Treasurer: Mark A. Gardner- (NRLCA) National Rural Letter Carriers' Association (Ind.)
1630 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone (703) 684-5545
Fax: (703) 548-8735
President: Dale A. Holton
METAL TRADES COUNCIL, AFL-CIO
888 16th Street, NW
Suite 702
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 974-8030
President: Ronald E. AultAFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
- International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
- International Chemical Workers Union
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- International Union of Elevator Constructors
- International Association of Fire Fighters
- International Asssociation of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers
- Laborers International Union of North America
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
- Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union
- Office and Professional Employees International Union
- International Union of Operating Engineers
- International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades of the United States and Canada
- Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons
- International Association of the United States and Canada
- Service Employees International Union
- Sheet Metal Workers International Association
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America
- International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada
- Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
- International Brotherhood of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers
- International Association of Carpenters and Joiners
- United Brotherhood of Chemical Workers Union
- International Electrical Workers
- International Brotherhood of Elevator Constructors
- International Union of Engineers
- International Federation of Professional and Technical Fire Fighters, International Association ofFiremen and Oilers
- International Brotherhood of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
- International Association of Laborers' International Union of North America Machinists and Aerospace Workers
- International Association of Molders' and Allied Workers' Union of North America
- International Office and Professional Employees International Union Operating Engineers
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades of the United States and Canada
- International Brotherhood of Plaster' and Cement Masons' International Association of the United States and Canada
- Operative Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada
- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Service Employees' International Union Services Employees' International Union Sheet Metal Workers' International Association Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers' International Union North America Steelworkers of America
- United Teachers
- American Federation of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America
- International Brotherhood of Utility Workers Union of America
U.S. Office of Personnel Management 1900 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20415 | (202) 606-1800 | TTY (202) 606-2532 - (NALC) National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO)
- (ACT) Association of Civilian Technicians (Ind)