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Post by toofarnorth on Mar 23, 2016 14:49:19 GMT -5
You have a contract with PATCO - either you can quit the union and have your dues sent to some agreed-upon charity, or stick with your contracted union membership. If you want to try a different union, you have to file with the NLRB and hold a "decertification election" to dump PATCO, then vote to elect the other union. Yeah, I'd like to hear more from PATCO, but I'm not ready to bail on them... Anybody talk to NATCA about representing us?
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Post by skobie on Apr 10, 2016 7:10:21 GMT -5
I'm not so sure each site couldn't form their own, individual Union, perhaps under the AFL-CIO or similar. I do know that if Congress does approve the current FAA Reauthorization Bill and we are funded through FY 2017, then we need to start talking about a distinct and separate Association for all of our 136 sites and the 10 or so contractors that have the site Groups. It is what the Federal Contract Tower sites already have (Federal Contract Tower Association) and it probably saved their asses at the sites the FAA wanted to close during sequestration a couple of years ago. I have started to gather some information about it through talking to a gentleman through one of the current Industry Groups who suggested it to me. I will share what I found out in the near future, but need to talk to some others first (and Congress needs to approve the Reauthorization Bill first).
skobie
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Post by wxornot on Apr 10, 2016 17:25:49 GMT -5
skobie Thanks for all you do!!
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Post by w0x on Apr 30, 2016 16:33:13 GMT -5
Has ANYONE heard ANYTHING from our OWN union? Not just the ATC union? Unbelievable!! Click here for your answer. Turn your speakers on. We work two hours a month for membership dues, at least they could put two hours in a month creating a newsletter and emailing it to all their members at one time. No paper, no printing. Get the email addresses and start communicating! The name of this product/website says it all! www.constantcontact.com/
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Post by coldairfunnel on May 1, 2016 0:44:41 GMT -5
PATCO is as useless as tits on a bull....
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2016 11:45:27 GMT -5
Yup
That why most have drop Patco at our station this year, and never looked back.
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Post by shallowfg on May 2, 2016 7:24:20 GMT -5
Staying with PATCO is a death sentence.
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Post by alstein on May 2, 2016 11:22:51 GMT -5
Actually, if most of the observers across the country stopping paying dues in protest, which should be easy in the right-to-work states most of us are in, would PATCO do us a favor and drop us so we could get someone better?
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Post by coldairfunnel on May 2, 2016 13:34:50 GMT -5
The only reason, and I mean "THE ONLY"!!! reason, I have stayed with PATCO is because our negotiated wages and benefits are a lot more than the DOL Wage Determination. I believe some of the contractors out there would use that as a tool to lower our wages & benefits. We are pretty much up a s**t creek without a paddle......
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Post by toofarnorth on May 2, 2016 13:56:40 GMT -5
Ditto coldairfunnel. Time to move on something - I'll try to call Sam, but I doubt he'll answer.
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Post by toofarnorth on May 2, 2016 14:35:08 GMT -5
This website keeps dropping my reply to myself... 4th try...
Sam was “in a meeting” according to FPD (parent union). I left message with both Sam's cell voicemail and with FPD, requesting Sam to type up a few short paragraphs describing their activities on our behalf for the last year (since the last newsletter). I'll post it here when I get it... They still haven't followed through on obtaining help to do newsletters... FPD said the ATCs still in PATCO don't like us... “brothers”? Couldn't tell if they were holding anything up, but if that's the case, we need a new union – let's see what Sam has to say. We need help, or it will be too late very soon.
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Post by toofarnorth on May 2, 2016 15:10:03 GMT -5
Hey! Sam and Mark called me back! Sam promises a statement by the end of the week - I'll post.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 6:36:52 GMT -5
It is sad that PATCO has to be pushed-prompted to send out information updates as to what they have doing for members of PATCO over the last year.
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Post by coldairfunnel on May 3, 2016 9:07:33 GMT -5
The statement will probably be something like..."PATCO IS WORKING VERY HARD ON YOUR BEHALF. HANG IN THERE BROTHERS AND SISTERS".....
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Post by rich on May 6, 2016 19:05:26 GMT -5
Hey! Sam and Mark called me back! Sam promises a statement by the end of the week - I'll post. This week?
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