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Greetings from Mid-Michigan - The Great Lakes
State
We are losing a great Regional Director. Bernie
Carey will be retired when you read this article. He has helped us through
many issues and provided many solutions to problems. “THANK YOU”
for being a good friend and for everything you did in support of our
Local. Bernie, you will be missed greatly and thought of often. Enjoy a
well deserved retirement.
This month’s contract issue we need to
think about is NEIEP.
Apprentices are completing the schooling at what
seems to be an accelerated rate of time and the knowledge they acquire
within 4 years on the job seems insufficient. To train a safe, well
rounded and experienced Mechanic, more OJT time is required. Extend the
Apprentice Program to a six (6) year program as follows:
1st year: Classroom and OJT (Year 1 class)
2nd year: OJT only
3rd year: OJT only
4th year: Classroom and OJT (Year 3 class)
5th year: Classroom and OJT (Year 2 class)
6th year: Classroom and OJT (Year 4 class)
Mechanics Exam
What do you think will improve the
program?
What do you think about strikes in the
Master Agreement?
Should Article X, Par. 6 be removed,
changed, or added too?
Speak up and be part of your future.
ARTICLE
X
Designation of Helper's and Apprentice’s Work and Qualifications
Par.
6 Upon completion of the required classroom education program and
mandatory on-the-job training (OJT) hours, all fourth (4th)
year Apprentices will be afforded the opportunity to sit for the NEIEP
Mechanic’s Exam. Those who pass the exam are elevated to the status of
Mechanic, as referred to in Article X, Paragraph 4.
Those who do
not sit for or who do not pass the first two scheduled Mechanic’s Exams,
upon completion of the required classroom education program and mandatory
on-the-job training (OJT) hours shall be reclassified as a third (3rd)
year Apprentice for all purposes on the following January 1st.
Those third (3rd) year Apprentices who do not sit for or
who do not pass the third scheduled Mechanic’s Exam will be treated
as a Helper for purposes of layoff on the following January 1st. They will
be subject to the Apprenticeship Program for the purposes of eligibility
for taking the NEIEP Mechanic’s Exam.
This status
shall continue for a period not to exceed the next scheduled NEIEP
Mechanic’s Exam. Those who do not pass the next scheduled NEIEP
Mechanic’s Exam will be ineligible for employment with any NEBA
Employer at the discretion of the Employer.
What’s important to you? Drop by the Hall, e-mail an idea,
mail a letter, or call with ideas.
“I like the
dreams of the future better than the history of the past”.
Thomas Jefferson
The work Picture:
BAD!!
Web
Site:
Changes are made through out the month on everything
Golden Rail Club
Grand Rapids:
6.15.10 -10:00 a.m. at Bills Family Restaurant, 1235
Michigan St., NE,
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Kalamazoo & Battle Creek: 6.4.10
-10:00 a.m. Theo & Stacey's Restaurant (by the Airport).
Flint, Saginaw, Lansing:
6.9.10 (even months) 9:00 a.m. at Bob Evans
Restaurant, 1250 E Main St., Owosso, MI 48867
Dates to remember:
June 16, 2010
Traverse City Meeting 6:00 pm, Bay View Inn, 5074 US
Highway 31, Traverse City
June 17, 2010 Marquette
Meeting 6:00 p.m., Pizza Hut next to
Holiday Inn, Marquette
June 24, 2010 @
9:00 a.m. JAC Meeting
June 29, 2010 @ 7:00 p.m. –
Union Meeting - 6:00 p.m. E-Board
& BBQ
July 6, 2010
Application Deadline (state test)
July 27, 2010 State
Test
July 30, 2010 Save the
date “Family Union Meeting”
In Unity
There Is Strength,
Bill Kogelschatz
bill@iuec85.org
