All,
Hey everybody! Hope y’all enjoyed the 2 days of summer we had. Here’s the rundown for this week:
UNUM OPEN SEASON!
I know there are several of you who have been asking about this and waiting for it to happen so here it is! Open enrollment is now until September 26th but don’t delay, you never know when you might need it! UNUM is long-term disability insurance provided exclusively to NATCA members so please sign up. I highly recommend it, if you have any questions about it or wish to sign up visit www.NATCAdisability.com.
SHIFT START TIME CHANGES
I worded the above thing that way intentionally to try to grab your attention. As we enter negotiations for the 2023 Schedule MOU we wanted to bring up something that the agency might try to do on their own but we also might not fight them on if they do depending on what you all think. The idea is to move the flex time to be 30 minutes AFTER your shift start time. This would mean that all 0700s would become 0630s with a flex to 0700 and so on. The impact to you would be nonexistent other than having to remember that when you look at the schedule at see 0630, you cannot show up at 0600. The benefit would be a workaround to one of the dumbest things that CRU-art causes to happen. That is if you have a 1500 and you take leave on that shift, you cannot work until 0800 the next day because the system codes you as having worked from 1500-2300 even though you were on leave. So to get your 9 hours in between shifts, you can’t show up until 0800. I assume that this has impacted some of you at some point in the past. If we make this change then the system would code you as leave from 1430-2030 and allow you to sign in at 0730 the next day. Make sense? Please click HERE to help us gather some information on how this change would be received by the workforce.
LOCAL CONSTITUTION CHANGES
At our next local meeting on Saturday, August 13th (Time and Location TDB) we will be voting on proposed changes to our Local Constitution. In accordance with Article XIV Section 6 of the National Constitution, we are required to post these proposed changes 30 days prior to the meeting. You can see the proposed changes HERE. Scroll to Article VIII to see the first proposed change. This adds a sentence to Section 1 that states when terms will begin and deletes the old Section 3 stating when terms are to begin. The other change is to delete Section 2 from Article XI. This will give us more leeway in how we conduct our Local Election nominations. There are still DoL guidelines we have to follow regarding nominations. Deleting this will untie our hands a little on the dates for the nomination period. Please contact Drew or Amy if you have any questions regarding these amendments. There will be time for debate at the meeting before we vote on these as well.
T-SHIRTS
Don’t forget to sign up for your NATCA ZSE T-shirt! Remember this is a shirt we are paying for as a local. I hate to use the word free because it isn’t technically “free” as we are using your dues to pay for it, but it is included in your membership.
If you would like more info on sizing, design, etc. of each shirt, here are the links:
If you are wondering about the sizing, the shirts seem to run about a half a size small.
That’s all for this week. Looking forward to seeing all of you on 7/13 for the Argosy Cruise!
Drew