Three items of interest this week.
First, negotiations start on November 1st. That’s good.
Next, the voting in the Patient Representatives collective bargaining election starts now.
That’s good because we may be adding scores of capable, dedicated professionals to our union. Results of that election will be revealed on November 9th.
Finally, we have a job offering. The Administration for Children’s Services needs a permanent Administrative Staff Analyst to take on a job as “Executive Director for Change Management and Implementation.”
It sounds interesting and, we assume, would involve a few dollars more for any permament Administrative Staff Analyst willing to transfer.
Check out the newsline message for October 26, 2018, below, for how to apply and the notice giving the details.
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Are you a permanent Admin Staff Analyst? Looking to make a move to a new position? Michael Grant, the Talent Acquisition Manager at the Office of Personnel Services of the Administration for Children's Services sent the union a posting for an Administrative Staff Analyst position. The Admin would serve as the "Executive Director for Change Management and Implementation." The position is only open to candidates who are permanent Admin Staff Analysts. So, if you are a permanent Admin, take a look at the posting notice at the link below and see if the opportunity seems right for you. Then, email your resume and letter of inquiry, noting your permanent civil service title, the job title and the job ID number to careersatacs@acs.nyc.gov.
Executive Director For Change Management (Admin Staff Analyst)
Good news. Commissioner Lake of the Office of Labor Relations contacted us on Friday of last week. She informed us that she may be able to schedule negotiations by the 30th of this month. Excellent! We are ready and eager.
Also good, we are reviewing a survey questionnaire that HRA plans on sending out to compressed work week particpants. The HRA piot project on Alternate Work Schedules has (according to hearsay) gone well. The survey should confirm this.
As soon thereafter as is possible, we are hoping for the other half of our members at HRA to be given this option.
It would be a nice present for the holidays.
Our campaign to add Patient Representatives to our union will be soon reaching the stage of voting. Voting will be done by telephone or electronically and the results will be announced on November 9th.
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The interesting news this week has to do with the settlement of the Teachers Union’s contract. On the surface, the contract terms parallel the DC 37 settlement fairly closely. Nonetheless, there are small differences in the numbers on the raises and the months covered.
We do not expect to find an obvious difference between DC37 and the UFT, since that would defeat the entire system of pattern bargaining. However, having said that, there can be subtle provisions that are very valuable.
In the previous contract bargaining, the UFT got the same pattern as DC37 but did get some extras for specific situations, like “ambassador teachers” and in order to entice senior teachers to to “hard to recruit” schools.
Our research division will now study those details looking for hints for our own upcoming contract negotiations.
Members may recall that, on our last contract, it took a bit longer, but we did get a bit more..
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Many of our members worked below Canal Street after 9/11. On Monday, October 15th, there will be a public meeting at the Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, 19th Floor South at 6pm.
At that meeting will be the medical director of the World Trade Center Health Program’s Survivor Program and the Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
If you think this concerns you, you can respond by calling 212-330-7658 to reserve your seat or visit the website at this link -- 911health2018.eventbrite.com
Other news. We have refreshed our request for negotiations and the City promises soon.
One issue in our demands relates to the work week of Supervisors of Traffic Device Maintenance. A meeting was held last week and representatives led by Ed Ovadek met with Adam Orgel and Alice Moise to fine tune their demands.
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The big news this week is that members of some DC37 locals are due to begin receiving their new contract raises this week or next, depending on their pay cycle. This will cause surprise to those of our members who do not call the newsline, so we can anticipate a number of incoming phone calls asking about our own raises.
Our own raises are, in fact, mostly set in advance by the pattern now concluded between DC37 and the City, but those raises are not yet negotiated formally.
We have requested to bargain, but the City has not yet set a date. The one positive aspect to the delay is that since all raises are retroactive, no monies will be lost.
Sooner would be better, but this is the system created by New York City. It is called pattern bargaining and it has both advantages and disadvantages.
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