Brothers & Sisters:
December was a month to try and get caught up on outstanding grievances. Laura spent a great deal of time going through the files, and pulling out old grievances for each of the Reps. So far, I've settled or withdrawn well over 100 outstanding grievances in December. I still have a lot to go through, and hope to resolve many more in January.
EVRC has started offering training for the FSC; classes will be starting in the beginning of January. Also, 10 reps went on loan over to the Ecommerce Center.
Temple Terrace had employees in the Network Provisioning group relocated to Telecom Parkway. They are the only group that has actually left the building. Still hearing rumors that the company is still looking at relocating employees to the 301 complex and downtown Tampa, but nothing has been confirmed.
Cable Splicers on loan to West Virginia were brought back the week of Christmas, and what a disaster!!! Management decided they needed to leave right before a blizzard hit the area…lets just say it made for an interesting trip. Luckily, no one was injured, and the company did the right thing and paid the employees who were stuck in hotels through out the area on Saturday.
FNFT's were busy this month, hopefully than continues into next year. It appears that the negotiation between Time Warner and Fox is creating more order activity for FIOS, and that has helped out a lot during the last two weeks of the year.
In Solidarity,
John Glye Jr.
