All,

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season and isn’t too stressed. Make sure you watch Christmas Vacation! 🎅 Anyway, here’s the update:

Cascade LOA Trial

Quick reminder that the trial period for the Cascade altitude restrictions started today. I have updated the TMI bay header that Amy made to indicate the flow at EUG and MFR. Make sure you are keeping those up to date. Garret has also placed feedback forms on each sector. Please feel free to share all thoughts about the restrictions there. I know y’all won’t be shy. The FLMs should be keeping the ESIS up to date with EUG/MFR runways as well so let me know if they are not doing that.

IST Cadre

The cadre class for IST is coming up next month. Two separate classes. 1/29-30 and 1/31-2/1. Cadre is the class where they teach you what to teach. The dates you would actually teach the classes to the workforce are 3/3-3/16. Let me know if you want to do this. I need those names by COB today.

Line Solicitation

Brett Lewis is leaving us. 😢 So we need to begin the process of soliciting out his line. I don’t think this will be more that 2-3 moves at most so it should go quickly. I know it seems weird to be soliciting a line before we even transition to the new schedule so I wanted to touch on that a little. When we were bidding, we didn’t know for sure that Brett was going to be picked up so we had to plan for him being on the schedule. We thought he might get picked up so to protect for that, we bid Jordan as a trainee. Now we should be able to fill Brett’s spot with Jordan. Just so you all know how that went down.

9 hours between shifts

Fatigue mitigation MOU requires 9 hours between a swing and a day shift. Someone at the region is trying to justify their existence by auditing all of our timecards and sending emails to our ATM if we violate this 9 hour rule. Please be hyper vigilant of this. I have been told by a few people that the cru art might not be properly warning you if you have less than 9 so make sure you are keeping track of that yourself as well. Ultimately all responsibility for following that rule falls on us as it is in a mutually agreed upon MOU.

Thats it for this week. As always, hit me up with any questions.

In Solidarity,


Drew