Hello All, This is going to be a relatively short report.
Last week the Steering Committee met in San Francisco to discuss contract proposals. This meeting was hosted by Locals 856/986 in San Bruno. There were representatives from all over the country present. As you can imagine there were many proposals and many different ideas on how to move forward. I was pleased with the process as each proposal was thoroughly vetted before moving to the next one. The committee attacked each Article line by line with the goal of tightening and clearing up language that dates back to 1947. While we made progress more work is definitely needed. We will meet again in the beginning of February to continue this work.
We were informed that an official negotiations progress website will be set up. This website will be interactive and will include the current update as well as a link to communicate with the Negotiating Committee. When the website is up and running I will post a link on the blog as well as the website.
I did talk to local management this week about the hangar and it is still in the works.
Last week I forgot to mention that the PV grievance for the lead opening was rescheduled for tomorrow January 26th at 3pm.This was due to an unexpected event that the new manager had to deal with.
That's all for this week,
Bob
