Brothers & Sisters:
April arrived with cold, heat, and lots of Pollen! It was a horrible month for outside techs since it was in 40's at the beginning of the month, and near 90 at the end. Summer is almost here…hopefully all of our Union Safety advocates are getting with their managers to schedule training on dealing with the heat this summer. We want everyone to know the dangers/signs of heat exhaustion, etc. so please schedule training as soon as possible. Danny Alfonso and I met with Joe Lombrana and Kwame Trotman on the overtime issues and in most areas it's improving. The big issues continue to be; asking for tentative overtime and making sure that the refused overtime is put on the rosters.
EVRC Reps. still continue to have scheduling issues due to the FSC training. It will hopefully improve in the next 4-6 weeks according to the Manager. Robert and I met with Aaron over the issue with one of the "trainers" for the FSC. The meeting was productive and Aaron agreed to allow the employees who were not properly trained in the night class to retake the class beginning on May 3, 2010.
NDC is still using members from the RCMAC on temporary work assignments. I had a meeting scheduled with Mr. Welford, but it was canceled at that the last minute. Hope to have a meeting soon to discuss what the permanent plans are for both of these work groups.
Cable Splicers continue to stay busy, especially with the Hillsborough County School Board project. This project should keep us busy through the next couple of months. We also had several large cable cuts in Tampa this month, which created a lot of overtime for some of our Cable Splicers. I met with Misty Wise last month to try and get the damaged cables brought back to the CZT II's, but we agreed to disagree and moved the grievance on to the next step.
FNFT's in Eastern are still reporting limited order activity. We still have techs on loan to Construction doing TAC work. In Tampa, things are busier. In fact, the company has offered some overtime on lay days in both the North and the South.
In Solidarity,
John Glye Jr.
