Brothers & Sisters:
What a month February was! The Sell One Investigations claimed more employees, both craft and management. Rumor has it, it's finally over. There have been multiple changes to the new Sell One More program, so please make sure you are up to date with the 2010 changes.
EVRC Reps are in the process of training for the FSC. As of today, a total of 36 reps have gone through the 13 day "boot camp". Out of that, 32 have successfully passed both the written and the structured interview. I feel that having an employee who talks with our "copper" customers every day is just as qualified without an interview to talk with our "fios" customers as well. We will be grieving each and every failure of the structured interview.
In Temple Terrace, Our dispatchers were asked to help support California which had one winter storm after another leaving 1000's of customers out of service. It appears as of today that the NDC will be moved later this year to Westside. Most of the other departments will be relocating to downtown Tampa.
We still have approximately18 Splicer's on loan to West Virginia. It looks like they will be extended to the end of April. I've received calls from members wanting to go out of state to work, but at this time the company hasn't approached the Union about adding any more out of state work.
FIOS activity has leveled off in all areas. Eastern is extremely low on activity compared to the Tampa area. It looks like the company is going to place some FNFT's on monthly TAC work. This would help out with the lack of FIOS activity, and help fix some of the copper plant before summer arrives.
We continue to meet with the company in regards to the Overtime Rosters. In some areas we can see measurable improvements, but in others…we have some work to do. The next scheduled meeting is Tuesday; hopefully we can identify and correct some of the remaining issues.
In Solidarity,
John Glye Jr.
