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Old 05-23-2007, 07:45 AM
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Falconjet
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Tony: The association signed the contract. They need to see that the loophole, if you will, has had a very negative impact on a fairly large number of folks and that maybe we need to get clearer wording in the next contract on base transfers.

That still doesn't explain the treatment the guys got from the union employees and points to the need for better education about the passover pay provisions in the contract. Yes its a two way street, the members need to be familiar with the contract and understand when passover is appropriate, but it wouldn't hurt for the union leaders to provide open info to the membership on these backdoor agreements with the company on 5 year old grievances either.

There is obviously a huge amount of misunderstanding among the newer hires about how and when and why passover is paid. We, as a union, need to address this to prevent issues like this coming up and fracturing the unity of the membership. We have too much of that already. You can point fingers back on the membership, but it has to be a two way street, the leaders can't just sit back and say you figure it out on your own.

I think the best way to educate the newer hires is through the mentor program (which I am a member of) to pass this info to the new hires. It would also be a way to pass info on the DP process so that we don't have newer hires out there wondering why nobody will talk to them because they picked up a DP. We need some info flow to the new hires during the first year because most if not all of the info passed during indoc is long flushed by the time they hit the line.

FJ
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