Training
I am still soliciting for an Article 5 detail to the training department. The detail is for a Stage 4 class. The dates are July 16-August 24. Please let me know if you are interested and if you have any schedule requests in the event you are selected. This solicitation will close on May 30th at midnight.
Airspace
I have been working with the C Area and the Airspace Office to address our ongoing issues with Molson South. We need more data to present a safety case to NUW in order to take back the airspace above FL280. If you have any traffic situation that is impacted by the airspace or adds to your workload please leave either a strip or piece of paper with a callsign, date and time in my headset box or ET’s headset box. We will collect data through the end of June.
Schedule Negotiations
I have already begun working on our schedule for next year and several people have offered help. I appreciate this offer and at the current time I am accepting suggestions for changes to our MOU, proposed schedules, as well as items/procedures that you would like clarified or better spelled out.
Management is happy with our current MOU and is only proposing grammatical changes going into 2019. This could drastically change depending on what the union proposes. As of right now the E-board is also happy with our current MOU and only wishes to make minor changes that allow greater flexibility at the area level to do what is best for our staffing needs. Please keep in mind that any proposed changes must be in compliance with our CBA.
If you wish to submit a proposed schedule it needs to include 32 lines at a minimum and 35 at a maximum. Please designate the addition of lines 33-35 in the order that you think would be most beneficial to the operations of our area. The shift guides will most likely remain unchanged. The 2 main complaints with this years schedule is the lack of coverage at the end of the night as well as the AWS lines being straight swings. These are the items I am going to do my best to address however there will be push back from management with our staffing between the swing and mid shifts. Our traffic through this summer along with splitting/combining of the sectors is going to greatly impact the negotiations for better coverage. If you have any other concerns about next years BWS please voice them so I can try my best to address them.
Brooke
Brooked85@hotmail.com
440.227.5591