June
26,2009
There are still IBEW Local 69
T-shirts and knifes for sale and can obtained them through the Local 69 office or talk to
your Steward. You can call the Local 69 office at (214) 821-4700
to check for availability. Below are three of the designs.
June
26,2009
Brothers and Sisters,
KDFW-KDFI has voted on
their contract and passed!
May
4,2009
Brothers and Sisters,
The IBEW Local 69 FR Committee met with Oncor today (5/4/09) to
discuss the changes made to the Safety Handbook regarding the
Suitable Clothing rule. The FR sock and the FR face
shield was the main topic.
The IBEW Local 69 FR Committee sent a letter of our concerns to
the ONCOR Arc Flash Committee on 2-6-09. Our main concerns
were on using the FR sock and the FR face shield. We believe
that our concerns were considered in making these changes.
Please review the attachments and always refer to Safety Rule
107-Suitable Clothing.
Johnny L. Flowers
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
IBEW Local 69
1408 N. Washington
Ste.210
Dallas Texas 75204
214-821-4700 (office)
214-821-6906 (fax)
214-793-0937 (cell)
May
1,2009
A brief summary of what went down at
our meeting with ONCOR (Rob Trimble,
Brenda Pulis and Kyle Davis)
yesterday:
·
Meeting format seemed to be better
with smaller group and more candor
between the parties.
·
Parties agreed to focus on improving
“communications” and in fact decided
to put communication as standing
agenda item at each quarterly
meeting.
·
Agreed to begin regular meetings
between three (3) ONCOR Regional
Managers and Local 69 Assistant
Business Managers to improve
communications and address issues
at local regional level.
·
;
Agreed to schedule follow up
meetings with Kyle Davis (ONCOR) and
George Crawford (IBEW) addressing
supervisors and stewards in the
different regions.
·
Discussed and reviewed the
possibility of a settlement of an
important pending arbitration case
involving “rest time”.
·
Discussed and reviewed the
possibility of using “Grievance
Mediation” as an additional step to
use between a top level grievance
and=2 0arbitration.
·
Discussed and reviewed union
concerns over the erosion of
bargaining unit jobs and the lack of
growth of bargaining unit jobs vs.
non-bargaining unit and management
jobs. This issue will also be a
standing item on the agenda at the
IBEW/ONCOR quarterly meeting.
·
Agreed to request that the ONCOR
Regional Managers work with the
Union Assistant Business Managers in
their respective regions to complete
the updating of the seniority list
for bargaining unit employees.
·
Set the next joint quarterly meeting
for August 5, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at
the ONCOR office in Grand Prairie,
Texas.
April
21,2009
Health Insurance Update
IBEW and Oncor have been in
the process of gathering important documents in relation to
providing us with a firm bid of IBEW Health care plan. This
information has been submitted to the IBEW in Washington and
there will be processed and hopefully a bid will be presented
here within the next month or so. Local 69 has pressed very hard
on getting this very important issue completed. Thank you for
everyone's patients.
April
6,2009
There is an opening slot for
a member on E-board that will represent the Western Region. If
theres anyone in the Western Region that is interested in this
position please contact the local via email or phone. For more
information on this position, please contact the business Mgr.
Johnny L. Flowers
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
IBEW Local 69
1408 N.Washington
Ste.210
Dallas Texas
214-821-4700 (office)
214-793-0937 (cell)
April
3, 2009
Brothers,
We have met with the company on the changing of the way we do
our on call. We met on 3-30-09 and 4-03-09 and voiced our
concerns on why the Company does not have the right to implement
this change. We did not come to a conclusion and the Company
said that they were going forward with the change. At this
meeting we also discussed the grievance procedure and we will be
filing a grievance at each service that is affected. This will
allow us to see how many service centers are affected and then
we will combine them into one grievance. This will be filed
under, for the good of the Union.
Johnny L. Flowers
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
IBEW Local 69
1408 N.Washington
Ste.210
Dallas Texas
214-821-4700 (office)
214-793-0937 (cell)
February 25,2009
Latest news of the IBEW
health insurance!
We are set to have a meeting
March 13,2009
for an IBEW representative to
make a presentation regarding a cost proposal, etc for the IBEW
Healthcare Plan for workers at ONCOR and Luminant. There will be
a update to the out come of the meeting.
February 16,2009
IBEW Healthcare update.
IBEW is in the process of getting three bids together to
present to EFH.The first bid will be for ONCOR Only. The second
bid will be for Luminant Only. The third bid will be for ONCOR
and Luminant together.As I understand this you will need to be a
bargaining unit employee to participate.We should know something
by the end of this quarter about the bids.
Johnny L. Flowers
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
IBEW Local 69
214-821-4700 (Office)
214-793-0937 (Cell)
December 29,2008
With the combined effort of
both Oncor and Local 69, a revised service center preference
list is now available. The preference list will be in the
Steward info folder and in a attached link below for a short
while. Once you have completed the list and turned in to get it
signed, it is recommended that you make a copy of the signed
list for own documentation. If you have any questions pertaining
to the list please direct them to your Steward or Business Mgr.
Service Center_preference_list
December
15,2008
Dear Brother’s & Sister’s:
On December 10th we held our
quarterly Labor/Management Meeting in Arlington, Texas. This
included the Staffing, Safety & Health Care.
The Staffing Committee discussed the job
positing that are being put on Oncor’s job posting site. Oncor
plans are to hire 57 new employees and replace 37 employees that
have either retired, been promoted or left the bargaining unit
for any reason. This includes an additional storeroom employee
in Temple, and two Troublemen – one for each Doc’s.
On the Safety Committee we discussed the
new F.R. clothing that everyone has been fitted for. Mr.
Tidwell did say that instead of the face shield you could wear
the head sock and safety glass’s (clear) at night. You can wear
the sock to replace the shield anytime. Mr. Tidwell also said
that 97% of the time the long sleeve Henley will be the only
shirt required. After you receive your new F.R. clothing in
January you will no longer be able to wear your current F.R.
clothing to work in. All of these changes have been brought
about by the N.E.S.C. - National Electric Safety Code. There
are not any changes to OSHA rules.
On the healthcare issue there has not been
any progress. The IBEW and Oncor representatives are still
getting all data together. We should know in the first quarter
of 2009 if we have a deal or not.
We will be filling vacancies on the E-Board
in January. Anyone that is interested should contact our office
by e-mail (ibewloc69@aol.com)
or phone (214-821-4700). These vacancies will be filled on
January 22, 2009 at the Dallas meeting. All E-Board meetings
will be held on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 4:00
p.m. All E-Board members will need to be available by phone at
this time. We will be handling the E-Board business by
conference call. Conference calls will allow everyone an
opportunity to serve where they are located at.
If you have an e-mail address and would
like to be added to our list send us your information. Also if
you have a new address, phone or job, please contact the office
so we can update your records. Again, you can contact us by
e-mail or phone.
Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year. Remember all of our troops that have served and
are currently serving. Because of their sacrifices we are free
today.
Just a reminder – Per Capita Dues will
increase $1 (one dollar) on January 1, 2009.
God Bless,
Johnny L. Flowers
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
July
9,2008
To help both the Local 69 and Oncor in gathering a complete seniority list, a form has been
created for each and everyone of us to fill out and
give to our Supervisor. The Supervisor's are aware of
this form and have been instructed to work with us
in this process.
With the cooperation in both the Union and Management, we can complete this task in a
timely manor.
If you have any questions pertaining to this procedure, feel free to contact your
steward and or business Mgr.
I have attached the form under the Steward info
tab.
We thank you for your time.
