Northwest Mountain Region
May Quarterly
8th May 2001
McMinnville, OR AFSS
- In attendance for NAATS:
- John Dibble, Denver AFSS (NAATS Regional Coordinator);
- Greg Deveraux, Boise AFSS (Facility Representative);
- Darrell Mounts, Denver AFSS (Facility Representative);
- Steve Hovey, Cedar City AFSS (Facility Representative);
- Wes Donnelley, Great Falls AFSS (Facility Representative);
- Greg Deveraux, Boise AFSS (Facility Representative);
Visitors for NAATS
- Don McLennan, Seattle AFSS (NAATS Regional Director);
- Rebecca Toborek, McMinnville AFSS (Facility Representative);
- Patrick O'Connor, Caspar AFSS (Facility Representative).
Agenda Items
In accordance with the Agreement between the National Association of Air Traffic Specialists and Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation, dated July 16, 1993, under Article 10, the Union requests the pleasure of your attendance at a Regional Quarterly Meeting to be held at the McMinnville AFSS facility on Tuesday, May 8 from approximately 10 AM until such time as is necessary to cover all agenda items and any last minute topics that arise at the facility.
Arrangements will be made to have a luncheon, provided by the Union, for all meeting attendees.
The following issues comprise the agenda items on behalf of the Union at this time, with the right to reserve additions, or deletions as necessary, within the next few weeks, prior to finalizing all meeting arrangements.
- We request an OASIS update on the FAA's plan to deal with the "traffic spikes" in summer air traffic workload and the added necessity of staffing two extra positions, for as long as up to 16 hours a day throughout most of the summer? It is recognized that the facility has four less employees to cover the operation than when the fiscal year was begun back in October. It is further recognized that there is no national staffing plan for the regional office to authorize the hire of new employees from outside of the current FAA employment roles.
- What is the current status of FSS bargaining unit staffing in ANM and how many persons are needed to adequately staff the facilities in conjunction with the FAA's target facility staffing numbers?
- What is the status of MVV AFSS Grievance N-ANM-01-001-MMV?
- What is the status of arrangements to insure attendance at the Flight Service Division, ATP-300, Flight Service Renaissance for all invited bargaining unit members?
- Has there been a facility distribution of Order 3120.29A, Familiarization Training, to all facilities (with a copy to each FacRep) and Impact and Implementation bargaining at the local level between the Facility Representative and a responsible management official?
- The following persons are listed as interested in moving to ANM. Is management interested in working with their counterparts in other regions to try and select these employees (if so desired by both the FacRep and Facility Manager) and effectively eliminate any further use of the CPP MOU agreement? The target facility is bolded.
Richard Freed ISP BOI/SEA/MMV Wendy L.Gerhard MIA MMV Varic Ellefson ZYQ SEA Cameron MacDonald LAN CDC Gary DeVries FAI CDC William Worsfold ENA BOI/SEA James R. Scanlon KTN BOI Michael R. Cole JNU MMV James Betts FAI GTF William Farnsworth RAL BOI Randall Gow RIU CPR/GTF/BOI If the region were fortunate enough to pick-up all these individuals there would be a net gain of 3 bargaining unit employees for SEA AFSS, 2 for BOI AFSS, MMV AFSS, CDC AFSS, and GTF AFSS. Unfortunately, this does not indicate any new hiring for the DEN AFSS and CPR AFSS, which have the Union's highest priority at this time. Also, what is the status of an individual whose name I can't recall moving from GTF to BOI?
- What is the status, in each facility, of the national implementation of the CRUEX program and the results of the Impact and Implementation bargaining that has already occurred locally?
- The employees at the GTF AFSS are very interested in a program that may unfold at the BTE airport, referencing a national program labeled "Mike in Hand". The Administrator for the National Weather Service and the Governor of Montana are both ardent supporters. What role would the GTF AFSS play and what would be the responsibilities of the bargaining unit employees? This is especially important for contract employees not on site at the facility. If you have trouble finding information on this topic my point of contact has been Wes, at the facility, which may have additional information to assist you in data gathering.
- What is the status of the search for a new Air Traffic Manager at GTF AFSS? How much longer do to you anticipate that Bill Fisher will have to remain on duty in a temporary duty status? Are you necessarily using the GM-15 List or may you pursue other avenues of interested individuals? If utilizing another source of candidates who has not satisfied that requirement, will you be selecting from outside the FSS option for a manager? Finally, do you have "relocation: funds to enable you to select a Manager who would otherwise not move if they had to do so at their own expense?
- We have an IOU from the last Quarterly Meeting held in Seattle on 2/6/01 that said, "Some of our facilities still do not have access to T&A information on the FAA Intranet for the Controllers. When can we expect this to be arranged?" Please update us with what has transpired and why we are not accessing the intranet in each of these facilities?
- There are three items left over from previous Quarterly Agenda topics that need to be updated:
A) The suggested firefighting TFR NOTAM format changes that were submitted in August of 2000 for, hopefully, relief in the summer of 2001. The time is upon us and near as we can tell nothing has been done.
B) The status of the Center "flight following" UCR. This is also an agenda item from the August Quarterly Meeting, almost one year ago now. This either needs to be dealt with or the agency needs to acknowledge they do not have the where-with-all to deal with this issue and the Union will go somewhere else to seek relief. Please provide us with an accounting of what ANM has done-to-date on this issue?
C) The tower obstruction light NOTAM procedure. Same as above.
- The facilities have been charged with creating a Model Work Environment workgroup to come up with a MWE action plan. What is the Region's expectation for this action plan? What kind of accountability will facility management have for the results of such an action plan and for the local results of the Employee Action Survey?
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