Brothers and Sisters,
Bidding the schedule and vacation leave will begin next week. The schedule bid and vacation bid will be conducted simultaneously. The NATCA designated reps for the bid are Brooke Dawson, Tony Germann, Derek Adams and myself. I will have all the information available to view online during the bidding. We’ll being using Google Sheets to view the schedule/leave bid progress and leave availability. The rules for the allotted time to bid are very similar to years past. As soon as the rules are available I’ll ensure everyone has access to them.
Obviously time is of the essence to complete the schedule bidding. If you are going to be away from the facility during the next few weeks please comply with these rules: “Employees scheduled to be away from the Area/Facility have the option of providing their bid requests via written proxy to a NATCA designated representative for submission. Employees are responsible to ensure that their request contains sufficient prime time options to complete their bid.” Also if you are away and have access to the internet we can make this work too, using email and/or texting.
If you have any questions, please come find me, email at skorniakoff@comcast.net, or call/text me at 253-332-2066.
In Solidarity,
Paul Skorniakoff
Tentative Schedule and Vacation Leave Bidding Procedures
Each area controller in a duty status will be given official notification by a NATCA Rep or designee of their turn to bid their prime time and/or non-prime time annual leave. Once notified, each bid opportunity must be completed within a one-hour period. To the extent that staffing and workload permit, 30 minutes of the one-hour period will be away from the operational area.
Should an employee not complete their bid(s) within the allotted time or request to delay their turn; their opportunity to bid is passed and notification to the next senior employee will be made.
Employees scheduled to be away from the Area/Facility have the option of providing their bid requests via written proxy to the NATCA designated representative for submission. Employees are responsible to ensure that their request contains sufficient prime time options to complete their bid.
Delays to this process are undesirable; therefore employees that are away from the Facility/Area for more two days and that opted not to provide a written proxy will be passed in the process and notification to the next senior employee will be made. Employees that are passed in the process may bid after the person currently eligible to bid completes his/her turn.
There will be 6 rounds for bidding leave.
Round 1 - up to 2 weeks, consecutive or non-consecutive
Round 2 through 5 - up to 1 week
Round 6 - First come, first serve.
The bid book will remain open until one of the following:
- All leave slots (first 3 slots per day) are filled.
- All accrued leave has been exhausted.
Definition of a week
1) Five days of accrued leave.
2) Days contained within a week.
3) You may bid leave around your RDO’s.
Other notables:
· Employees may cancel/change their bid leave after round 5.
· If a BUE elects to temporarily pass, they must wait until the completion of the next BUE’s bid prior to select their leave.
· BUE’s on the same crew are allowed to bid the same day(s).
· Any NPT used between 1/10 & 3/5 will be counted against their accrued leave for 2016.
Any PT or NPT leave bid on a holiday, will not count towards your accrued leave for bidding.