We finalized training for the negotiations committee yesterday. The training was led by Rich Lipsitz. Rich is a Business Agent with Local 264 in Buffalo New York. Rich has his Masters Degree and his previous position was a professor in the Labor Studies department at Cornell University. Also presenting was Paul Alves an International Representative from the Airline Division. Paul is a pilot and former ALPA representative. In addition to an overview of the process of negotiations under the Railway Labor Act the class worked through mock negotiations and other exercises to assist the committee at the table. It was an excellent class and all members of the team worked well together. It is a good start in my opinion.
If you don't know, David Bourne wrote a letter to the Company to officially start negotiations. We are to meet on April 14th for the Company's initial presentation. Here is a link to the letter.
Tomorrow the steering committee will meet beginning at 9am and we will meet until Friday or later if more time is needed to finalize our opening proposal.
While I am gone Tom Reid will be taking care of any grievances needing to be processed to the second step in MM and PV and Joe Filice will take care of the GQ side. I would like to thank both of these guys for their support.
In MM this week Larry Bailey is researching an open grievance. Jay Koreny called with interesting information on Friday afternoon. Jay found a deferral that was left open by Timco on a rudder check which came due over the weekend. Timco was going to come to Dulles to perform this work. I immediately called Bob Luciano and he contacted Don Burbank to express our displeasure with this type of work being done here by an MRO. Don agreed and the last information I have is that we were supposed to do the work. The third step on the Panasonic grievance was denied last week.
For GQ/PV we are still waiting on the company to present their information on the outsourcing issue.
The old MM overtime rules have been posted on the website.
That's all for now,
Bob
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