National Weather Service Employees Organization

What National Weather Service Employees Organization does

National Weather Service Employees Organization (NWSEO) is a nonprofit labor union and professional association founded in 1976. It represents approximately 4,000 employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including forecasters, technicians, researchers, attorneys, and support personnel in the National Weather Service and several NOAA offices. Its stated structure spans 242 bargaining units, five branches, and all 51 U.S. states and territories. Source ID:

NWSEO's core services are collective-bargaining representation, grievance handling, workplace-rights enforcement, career-promotion support, and advocacy on staffing, scheduling, telework, and agency funding. It also operates a political action committee, a document library, wellness and support resources, and an annual convention. The input identifies no proprietary technology products, software platform, AI/ML system, or API; service delivery relies on union leadership, negotiated agreements, legal mechanisms, and member communication. Source ID:

Member dues fund operations, collective bargaining, lobbying, member services, and administration. Membership is available through payroll deduction and agency onboarding classes, while the website, email communications, and annual convention support recruitment and engagement. The input discloses neither annual revenue nor a membership-dues schedule.

Name

National Weather Service Employees Organization

Legal name

National Weather Service Employees Organization

Website

https://nwseo.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

National Weather Service Employees Organization is a nonprofit labor union founded in 1976 that represents 4,000 NOAA employees through collective bargaining, grievance handling, workplace advocacy, lobbying, and member services across all 51 states and territories.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Member Dues: NWSEO generates revenue through member dues from approximately 4,000 represented NOAA employees. Dues fund union operations, collective bargaining, lobbying activities, member services, and administrative functions. The organization has recently increased dues and employs fiscal management strategies approved by the national convention.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

NWSEO is a labor union and professional association founded in 1976 that represents approximately 4,000 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employees in the U.S. Department of Commerce, including forecasters, technicians, researchers, attorneys, and support personnel. The organization provides collective bargaining representation, grievance handling, workplace rights advocacy, and lobbying before Congress on behalf of members across the National Weather Service, Office of Satellite & Product Operations, Office of General Counsel, Aircraft Operations Center, and Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory.

Product overview

NWSEO is a labor union and professional association representing approximately 4,000 NOAA employees in the U.S. Department of Commerce since 1976. The organization provides union membership services including collective bargaining representation, workplace rights advocacy, grievance handling, and member support programs. NWSEO represents employees across multiple NOAA offices including the National Weather Service, Office of Satellite & Product Operations, Office of General Counsel, Aircraft Operations Center, and Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory. The union offers members access to wellness programs, a PAC for legislative advocacy, a document library with collective bargaining agreements, and annual conventions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• NWSEO Membership Services Core union membership services for NOAA employees, including collective bargaining representation, grievance handling, workplace rights advocacy, lobbying before Congress, and access to member benefits. For forecasters, technicians, researchers, attorneys, and support personnel across NWS, NESDIS, AOC, AOML, and the NOAA Office of General Counsel.
• NWSEO Wellness & Support Program Wellness and member support resources provided to NWSEO members as a union benefit program.
• NWSEO PAC NWSEO-affiliated political action committee that funds legislative advocacy and lobbying activities in support of NOAA employee interests.

Quantifiable outcome

• Record-high membership of 1,662 achieved in September 2023
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Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• National Association of Government Employees (NAGE): NAGE (an SEIU affiliate) represents state, federal, and private-sector workers across multiple jurisdictions. Comparable to NWSEO through its federal employee representation arm, collective bargaining activities, and grievance handling services funded by member dues.
• National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU): NTEU represents ~150,000 IRS and federal tax administration employees — a single-agency federal union like NWSEO but for the Department of Treasury. Directly comparable business model: dues-funded, agency-exclusive recognition, CBA negotiations, and lobbying focused on protecting a single federal agency's workforce.
• American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE): AFGE is the largest federal employee union in the U.S., representing 750,000+ workers across many federal agencies. It is the closest direct peer to NWSEO: both are exclusive-representation labor unions advocating for federal workers via collective bargaining, grievance handling, and lobbying, with dues-funded recurring revenue models.
• National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE): NFFE is an AFL-CIO-affiliated federal employee union representing thousands of workers across multiple federal agencies. It is comparable to NWSEO in size, structure, and mission — providing collective bargaining representation, grievance support, and legislative advocacy on Capitol Hill for federal employees outside the NWS/NOAA sphere.
• International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE): IFPTE represents engineers, scientists, and technical professionals across federal agencies including NOAA and the Department of Defense. Comparable to NWSEO's scientific and technical NOAA representation, with overlapping coverage at NESDIS and a similar dues-funded advocacy model.

Emerging players

• Federal Managers Association (FMA): FMA represents federal managers and supervisors across multiple agencies. Less directly comparable to NWSEO's front-line employee focus, but operates in the same federal labor advocacy ecosystem with similar Capitol Hill lobbying and CBA representation.
• Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS): PASS represents FAA employees who certify and maintain the U.S. air traffic system. It is a partial peer to NWSEO: both are smaller, single-agency federal unions with similar dues-funded models and science/technical workforces, but PASS operates in transportation rather than meteorology.

Broad incumbents

• National Weather Service (NWS): NWS is the federal agency whose employees NWSEO represents. Not a direct competitor but a key stakeholder: NWSEO's bargaining relationship with NWS defines the union's core operations and value proposition to current and prospective members.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

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