VOL. 73 NO. 9 OCTOBER 2018 Solidarity with Boeing ...

1 VOL. 73 NO. 8 SEPTEMBER 2018. Arbitration Ensures Moved Work Remains Covered by Our Contract In August, District 751 won a very important arbitration case that challenged Boeing 's ability to move our work outside of the Puget Sound area to another Boeing location. This arbitration resolved a jurisdictional dispute involving Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) work at Members working at KAI NAS Whidbey the Portland (PDX) Paint Hangar facility, ratified their first contract building a yet the decision has implications far strong foundation for the future on Aug 13. beyond just the site involved in this case. First Contract This is a big win because it can, under certain circumstances, protect for KAI at NAS our work, said District 751 President Jon Holden who began pursuing the On August 13th, mechanics and issue shortly after he became president technicians who maintain the Navy in March 2014.

2 Basically, the decision P-3 Orion planes at Naval Air Station says Boeing cannot take our work from Whidbey Island overwhelmingly ratified here and give it to Boeing employees at a first collective bargaining agreement. a remote location without applying our District 751 President Jon Holden (l) and 751 Attorney Spencer Thal hold up The workers there had voted to join contract to the workers. the arbitrator's decision that ensured work moved to another Boeing location is District 751 on July 10. Our union hadn't taken on this covered by our contract as a remote location. This first agreement lays a strong fight in the past. It is very important a remote location of the Company's not designate it as such; however, that foundation to build on for the future. that we pursued this case. It could give Puget Sound Primary location. logic did not resonate with the arbiter. The group worked hard to achieve a us the ability to look at other locations 751 Staff Attorney Spencer Thal Boeing had not made any remote tentative agreement that recognizes the throughout the that may also be did an excellent job laying out our case location designations in decades.

3 In contribution these members make in considered a remote location, Holden establishing the PDX Paint Hangar as a fact, the ones referenced in Article 1. supporting our military. The agreement added. remote location within the meaning of of our contract no longer exist, and the included General Wage Increases in each The grievance focused on whether the Section (a)(4) of our contract. only active remote location at Edwards year of the agreement and other very Company violated the contract by failing The Company argued it was not a Air Force Base is not referenced in our Continued on Page 4 to declare the PDX Paint Hangar facility remote location simply because they did Continued on Page 3. Steward Enforces Shift Preference with Influx of New Members Since Boeing runs a three-shift operation, not every worker who wants to be on a particular shift can be Section Shift Preference, page 18.

4 Accommodated. Therefore, the Union contract contains shift preference language to help determine who gets Shift preference, like many other sections of the to work their preferred shift. While it is not a perfect contract ( overtime and Steward assignment), system, it provides a set of rules designed to ensure is based on the organization. Below is a brief fairness and consistency. summary of our Shift Preference language: The recent influx of new members into the ESRC While the Company has the exclusive right to has kept Union Steward Conel Yanos busy upholding assign employees to any shift to ensure operational the contract in regard to shift preference (Section , efficiency, senior employees who have a shift page 18). Conel keeps the shift preference list up-to- preference on file shall be given preference over: date weekly knowing as more and more new members Junior employees assigned to the same job title come in, it is important to ensure shift preference rights and shift.

5 Are maintained for our more senior members to move Junior employees returning non-bargaining onto their preferred shift. unit employees Recently, Conel was able to ensure two senior Business Rep Grace Holland (r) thanks Union New hires members, who were previously bypassed, moved to their Steward Conel Yanos for ensuring our members' Recall from layoff preferred shift. He also helped educate management on shift preferences are honored with so many new Promotional candidates the shift preference language and let them know he is members coming into his shop. Shift preference rights are not applicable to tracking shift movement in hopes management will be Grace Holland. Conel ensured any members who were employees being: more likely to follow our contract language. bypassed were transferred to their preferred shift. In Downgraded New hires are initially placed on first shift for training.

6 Addition, he is encouraging management to follow the Laterally reclassified on their current shift However, the issue gets more complicated when some contract language in getting the senior people to day Laterally transferred to the organization on new hires are kept on first shift for an additional 90 days shift as soon as the new hire training is finished. their current shift of training. We have to police the shift preference language Or over senior employees who are in their Conel has done a great job keeping the Company because Boeing is not doing it, said Conel. labor grade on task with this contract language and ensuring our Management tries to claim it is business needs, but I In addition, shift preference must be filed more members' shift preferences are honored! Keeping show them the language in our contract. The additional than three working days prior to the organization track of who is in training on first shift and when they months of training make it more complicated, but I effecting a shift change or declaring a job opening.

7 Should be sent to second shift is a daunting challenge, update the list weekly to know who should be first to If a member does not file a shift preference, it is but Conel has made it his mission, said Business Rep move to day shift. assumed that member is on their preferred shift. Family Members Retirees Inside Index Praise Free College Rehired President's Nothing Was a 3. Family members of 751 members New agreement protects Service to the are using the IAM free online current members while Retirement college to earn a two-year degree at no cost 5 enhancing temporary retiree rehires 2 Want Eastern 12. Page 2 751 Aero Mechanic September 2018. Report From the President Labor Day Celebrates Workers' Gains Through Solidarity By JON HOLDEN. IAM 751 District President is a problem workers still battle ratified a new contract so they know their Unions have also partnered with As we celebrate Labor Day today, but through union efforts wage increases and economic outlook for community allies to makeup a powerful this year, I would encourage we have made improvements.

8 The next three years. lobby on issues important for the middle each of you to take a moment Things like the 8-hour workday, Members at Boeing will receive a class. Unions helped secure job safety and remember this is not overtime pay, weekends, child quarterly cost-of-living adjustment of laws, Medicare and Social Security, simply a three-day weekend labor laws are the result of unions 14 cents an hour and then a 1 percent family medical leave, civil rights at the end of summer. This pushing hard on these topics. General Wage Increase. This quarterly protections, and much more. is our holiday to celebrate Here at 751, our members at COLA payment means that $ of The Union is all of us our retirees the incredible contributions Boeing recently improved the our maximum rates at Boeing are a direct with over 50 years of membership and of America's working people. Just as provision limiting designated overtime result of quarterly COLA payments from those who just hired in.

9 AND each of us important, this holiday celebrates the by reducing the limit from 128 to 112 our contract demonstrating the value of has a responsibility to get involved and gains we have made through union hours in a budget quarter. Members can that clause in our contract. use our voice to make our union stronger. representation by capitalizing on the still volunteer for more overtime if they An arbitration win this past month For many of our newer members, this strength in numbers theory. Only by want to, but Boeing cannot compel them determined, under specific circumstances, is your first experience with a union. standing together have workers made to work beyond the 112 hour limit. Boeing cannot take our work from here, Therefore, we are offering new member real gains in the workplace on wages, Unions provide workers with a set up shop with Boeing employees outside Continued on Page 3.

10 Benefits, and working conditions. powerful, collective voice to communicate of our jurisdiction and not be bound to In fact, unions were a driving factor in issues and address concerns. Union remote location language in our bargaining District Lodge 751, obtaining paid holidays. For our members membership means you are part of agreement. at Boeing , the 1950 contract marked the something bigger and have the support of We are excited to offer our retirees International Assn. of first time members received paid holidays. the union if and when you need it. a new, discounted Medicare supplement, Machinists and Before the 1950 contract, holidays were Despite the rhetoric Corporate as well as one-on-one counseling to Aerospace Workers simply a day off without pay. In our America spews, unions are not a thing determine which Medicare plan is best 1989 contract, we added language to of the past.