Bidding begins Sunday Morning!
The bid designees are myself, Derek Adams, Tony, and Damien.
The bid documents can be found on the local website http://www.natca-zse.com
We will be documenting bid leave online with operating initials. The crew lines and leave calendar are password protected. The password is 2152.
NATCA and management have been presenting a joint briefing on the MOUs this past week. If you have not been able to attend please read the MOUs and ask a bid designee any questions you may have before bidding. The MOUs are available on the ZSE NATCA website. There are changes to the bid procedures. The biggest change may be in the opportunities you have to bid in each round. If you do not bid all of your opportunities as they are presented, you will not be able to bid those opportunities until round 6. Those lower in seniority are at a disadvantage in round 6 as a senior controller may be able to bid the opportunities you passed in previous rounds. If everyone bids every opportunity in rounds 1-5 there will be no round 6. Management will collaborate with the union after rounds 1 and 5 to reduce or reallocate the leave slots for remaining rounds. A area has 696 total leave opportunities to be bid. Once we have bid that amount we will be done. Our area is at a disadvantage for summer leave after round 1. I will try to keep as many opportunities for subsequent rounds as possible but it would be to your best advantage to take your summer leave in round 1.
You do not have to bid on your RDOs but we will contact you in order to keep the bid moving. If you are on leave you may be skipped. We will make a reasonable effort to contact you. If you have scheduled leave, please leave a written proxy with a Bid Designee. In the event you have not left enough choices, via proxy, we will move on. If you are skipped, a message will be left and you may contact a Bid Designee to bid after the current bidder is done with their bid.
Dream Line requests must be submitted within one week of completion of the 1st round of bidding. Our area moves fast and we will likely finish round 1 within 2-3 days. If round 1 is completed on or before October 19, you will have until October 26 at 1330 to submit your request. I hope to be able to review all requests and have approval with 2 weeks. You will be notified or you approval or denial of a dream line once we review them.
2 envelopes will hang on the wall in the area next to the headset boxes. One will contain blank Dream Line request forms. The other will be for submitting Dream Line request forms. Once the Dream Line forms are collected, I will place shift swap forms in the area on the isle side of the sup desk. These may be submitted at anytime through out the year to myself or Damien.
If you wish to have a permanent shift swap with another controller for the year, we will take those requests anytime after dream lines have been processed. There will be a form for our records of the shift swap. If a line is vacated throughout the year by 1 of the individuals involved in the swap, the swap will no longer be honored and the other individual will go back to their bid line. If one individual is on leave, the other will go back to their bid line during that leave.
Trainee lines will be collaborated after we are finished with round 1 of CPC bidding. A Bid Designee will walk our first time bidders through the process.
If you have any questions please contact myself, a Bid Designee or even an E-Board member.
Brooke
440.227.5591
Brooked85@Hotmail.com