Iupat Local 1208

09/09/2014

A grievance about non-selection for overtime will go to arbitration in November. If you have been passed over for overtime or TDY, COME SEE ME! If we all stick together to hold our managers to Federal law and our Negotiated Agreement, they will have to abide by them. If not, it will be business as usual with disregard for Law, Rule, Regulation and Contract. I am only one, the Union is us.

09/09/2014

I have not received an update from the Shipyard lawyer or HRO or Admin about the S/75 Position Description so I will take it to arbitration saying the PD is not accurate since if they write that a grading standard from OPM is used to generate the PD the writer has to actually read it.

09/03/2014

IUPAT monthly meeting next week September 10, 2014 at 1120 above the fire station. Contact Jerry De Jesus if you have any question @3605354652 or 3608650358.

07/09/2014

Monthly meeting July 9, 2014 lunch room above fire station 1120-1202 day shift lunch time.

10/18/2013

03/11/2013

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, July 9. Come one, come all! Answers about changes in BMTC Officers, and more. Lunch is provided. We will be meeting at lunch time in the "Fire Station Canteen" in the conference room, as usual.

08/23/2012

I made the color the same as the IUPAT logo.

05/17/2012

Locker Room Improvement.
There are lots of lockers at 457 that are broken, not seismically safe anymore, have people in them that don't even work here anymore, etc. We used to have multiple crews trying to all muster in at the same time at different tables. Now we have new areas in 1106, 1124, and out on the piers. Very few crews muster in at 457 anymore. One of the tenets of Product Line is to improve communication between people with different parts of jobs. Mr. Winkler's idea is to bring the engineering folks that are going to do the engineering work in our Corrosion Control Product Line in the same office so that instead of emails and phone calls to collaborate, they will be right there in the same place and can talk the old fashioned way. I worked with Dawn Morgan on how to rearrange the furniture to keep the lockers that work, junk the lockers that are broken, rearrange the tables so it makes a nicer eating area, put in a small fitness equipment area for folks to use, and upgrade the sink from the janitor deep sink now, to a regular one for us to use for the eating area. Yes, Management and Labor collaborated before changes were decided on and implemented just like our President said we should do!
There will be fewer lockers in there. There are not enough lockers for everybody to have one in that area now. When you go to a project to work, you are supposed to get lockers there. If you are mustering at 457, you get a locker there. If you go TDY and want to have a locker until you get back, you get a locker at 457. Let's see if we can't cut down on people coming back from TDY to find their former locker empty and all of their stuff just disposed of because it has been longer than 30 days. We could have discussed this more at our monthly meeting, but we did not have very good attendance.
Questions? Comments? The more input I get from you, the more of what you like think and want goes to "The Shop" Otherwise all I can do is as best I can with what I think. "The Union" is us, not just me.

05/11/2012

A major issue we at BMTC are working on is payment of Environmental Differential Pay. The Shipyard says you don't get any Environmental Differential Pay because you get PPE. OPNAVINST 5100.23G 2001 (c) states that Activities must recognize that personal protective devices do nothing to reduce or eliminate the hazard itself. They merely establish a last line of defence and any equipment breakdown, failure or misuse immediately exposes the worker to the hazard. These two statements seem to contradict one another. If we had a proper Labor-Management Forum maybe we could work that out. HRO thinks we don't need no Forum, so I will have to file an On Behalf Of grievance for anybody and everybody who performs AAO duties. An Administrative Law Judge will have to sort it out. Your tax dollars at work.

05/11/2012

Our current major issues are Labor-Management Forums. An Executive Order was signed by President Obama in December 2009. There are some very specific things that were required of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to be in compliance with the Executive Order. Here is and excerpt from our Human Relations Office Advisors: 1. Following is the Employers response...to the requested information: (a) The written certified implementation plan to adapt the existing Labor-Management Relations Council to the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations to help Identify problems and propose solutions to better serve the public and agency missions including the description of how the agency conducted a baseline assessment of the state of labor relations at the time the plan was written... (the language of this question comes directly out of the requirements written into the Executive Order) "2. In response to item 1 (a) PSNS & IMF has no such plan."
Our HRO department thinks we don't need any plan to improve Labor-Management relations. We dissagree.