Reply to FLRA and Demand to Bargain

The FLRA gave us a few days to update the ULP we have with the site. Some corrections were made today. I think we made it stronger. Who knows, maybe something will happen. One thing that I really wanted to focus on was that the site did not make the actions about biannual medical updates site wide. No, they made it for only one person. Thus, it cannot be a park wide policy. Perhaps they should have negotiated. Maybe we will win. Then again, maybe not.

We are working on a demanbd to bargain. We want the staff and the managment to know that the Union is here and working. managment has brought a contractor to do some work, they say, in support of the interpretive staff. Well, the contract is very vague and not really specific. So, the Union will issue a demand to bargain, while the contract is going on, and hopefully have a seat at the table tow ork this out. Staff is concerned that their jobs might be contracted. I don't think that that will happen. But the positions are a different. Anyway, Tuesday we should be working on our Amendments and updates to the ULP. Then, the demand will be issued. Oh, we are think of having the two employees who lost time to go the Doctors to griev for it back. Not a bad idea.