All,

Hopefully everyone is having a good week and Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. For those that weren’t at the meeting last week at Rainbow Cafe, you missed a good one. It was probably the highest turn out of any meeting in my time at ZSE. We were able to discuss the upcoming MOUs and what you would like to see done differently as well as many other things. We did make 2 changes to our constitution. Elections are now decided by a plurality of the votes cast as opposed to a majority and election timelines have moved up to where they now must be completed by September 15th as opposed to November 30th. Good discussion was had on these and both passed almost unanimously. The amendment proposed to require a special election for unfilled terms of office did not receive a second and was not heard.

Reminder that my Half Christmas cookout is on 6/24 and the very next day is the NEB meet and greet at Virtual Sports in Tukwila @ 6pm. (Flyer at the top of this email).

PDX Metering

Much has been said about last week’s metering to PDX. Probably mostly by me. If you have questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to bring them to me or Trevor. We are at the very beginning of a very slow process to try to make metering work for us. We have many obstacles in our way on that journey so any help or suggestions would be appreciated. As far as we have been told, there will be no more metering to PDX until September at least. We have been lied to about that before though so please let me know if you have any issues come up as it relates to PDX metering.

CRU-X/ART

So this comes up every so often as something the agency likes to push us on. Per the MOU from 2010, the only time you are NOT required to sign yourself in is if you report at your scheduled shift start time. Meaning if you show up at 0700 for a 0700 shift, you don’t have to sign in. If you want the flex time, you have to sign in.

The MOU also says this:

A bargaining unit employee who takes leave during or at the end of the shift must make the appropriate sign out entries in the system.

Often times supervisors or CIC will sign us out when we leave early, don’t expect them to always do this. If you are going home on leave at 1500 and you get out on break at 1430, make sure the Supe has agreed to sign you out. Even still I wouldn’t trust it because technically that is something you are required to do per the MOU.

Here is the MOU for reference.

Not much else to be said right now, y’all let me know if you run into any issues!

In Solidarity,

Drew