May 2006
Dan’s Tool Box
by Dan Van Minnen
I greatly appreciate the opportunity of serving as the Maintenance steward for the local. It was a job that has been both challenging and never ending as management always gave me contractual violations to argue. I have decided to take a break indefinitely as the Maintenance Union steward, I will still represent and respect the Collective bargaining agreement and be active in the Local as Editor of the Newsletter and help out the Local as its membership determines. That opens a vacancy for all the craft employees in maintenance that might be interested in policing the contract. Now is the time to get involved and make a difference. There are still many issues that need to be resolved such as the two open vacancies, a FTR and PTR position in the custodial occupational code, the use of subcontracting labor and the many overtime and higher level issues.
Recently, we have witnessed a change in Management at the Postmaster and Station Manager levels at the Main. Well welcome aboard and hopefully your respect and dignity for the hard working employees of Aurora and there respective contracts will be shown in your actions and managerial style. Since the Maintenance Manager never bothered to let his employees know about the change I can’t address you since I don’t even know your names however, a few words of sincere advice to pass along; treat all of your employees fairly and with dignity and respect and you will succeed. Leadership by example brings true e’spirit de corps and gets the job done. It does matter how we do the job at the end of the day. Just ask our last Post Master because nobody really wanted to hire him but in the end they had to, it was a PCES sort of thing. Will he be back? Possibly, in Aurora the Union’s door is always open and we mean that saying because we leave the light on so collective bargaining may continue to take shape.
I would like to extend my sincere appreciation and gratitude on behalf of the entire
Local to Custodian Craig Hill at the Tower station. Craig recently donated a HP
desk top computer to the Union for union use. Way to go Craig! Its members like
you that make your Union representatives feel appreciated. Also congratulations
to all of the new members in the Local we are now at 106 members in strength. Remember
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