I hope everyone had a memorable Thanksgiving. Christmas will be here before we know it! Some of you are aware that I have been absent from the shop due to a shoulder injury. My inability to use my left arm and the Holiday weekend took me out of action briefly, but not completely. After reading your many e-mails and taking your phone calls, I have forwarded the bargaining unit's request for advance copies of the contract to our Representative Sonny Shannon and asked for a digital copy to post online.Sonny has agreed and said that advance copies can be, and will be made available as early as Saturday December, 6,2008. Sonny apologizes and said he will explain why they could not be made available any sooner and asks that everyone please be patient. He also said that this is how he normally conducts the ratification process and does not want anyone to jump to any conclusions.
The negotiation committee asks for your understanding as well, numerous sacrafices were made to get to this point and the committee has always had, and will continue to have, the bargaining unit's interests in mind throughout this process. We also ask for your patience, everyone will have access to a copy of the contract prior to the meeting.
Meeting information is now posted in the shops.
3 comments:
Will there be an agenda posted prior to Mondays meeting? I'm very curious as to how much time will be allotted for discussion and Q and A. It took a year of "diligent hard work" to bring this proposed contract to its current state and you want to present, discuss and vote on it in a couple of hours?
Dubious at best.....
We will be there from 9:00am until "as long as it takes". It won't take a year to roll it out. Dubious? We're doing everything above reproach and have done so since day one.
Ron,
Excellent job man. Looks really good. Everyone there deserves a lot of credit for sticking through the whole dragged out process. Make sure you thank the people for that.You will see as time goes by how the anti union people will come to see that this was a better way to go. Congadulations.
Peace, Lou.
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