All,
Congrats on getting the biggest federal workforce pay raise in 40 years. Don’t spend it all in one place. I’m bad at math but I believe this equates to a 5.7% raise for us factoring in locality. Read more HERE or on the NATCA website.
Want to help out?
We need volunteers for IST. Let your rep know if you are interested.
Cadre Training: Jan 30/31 or Feb 1/2
Workforce Teaching: April 21 - May 4
update on a grievance we filed
We filed a grievance on an incident in the C area where a supervisor debriefed a performance assessment in the operational area. Article 95 Section 2 states “Employee performance discussions shall occur outside of the operating quarters and include RADAR replay and voice recordings, where available.” So when we filed the grievance, our only requested remedy was that they follow the contract. You would expect them to so “Oh woops” and then begin doing it correctly. The formal way to do this is to “sustain” the grievance. This means they effectively agree that they made a mistake and will correct it in the future. The Agency at the local level decided instead to “Deny” the grievance because they believed that didn’t apply to people in training, but as you know, the contract applies to all of us. So we had to elevate the grievance outside the building where ARVP Josh Waggener got the grievance “settled” where the Agency has now agreed to begin following the contract. This is the kind of fun stuff your reps deal with on a daily basis. It would have been so easy for the agency to just agree to do it right from the beginning. Instead, it had to get elevated outside the building for us to receive a reasonable response.
That’s all I have for now. I hope you all have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny F’n Kaye!
Drew