The Union Joint Steering Committee and management representatives met in negotiations this past week on Tuesday and Wednesday. Negotiations centered on the New Business process redesign on Tuesday where we continued our discussions with management's representatives, New Business Clerks and Field Planning Associates. The JSC completed our presentation on the inefficiencies of the current New Business process and provided evidence that management's process redesign delays completion of new business work and jeopardizes customer satisfaction. The Union also contends that management is in violation of our Contract by shifting work from represented New Business clerks to Project Managers who are management personnel.
Management performing represented work violates our Contract and threatens our job security.
With 250 jobs on the line April 1, we must do everything we can to protect represented jobs. Documenting management performing represented work, identifying contractors in represented positions and challenging v-assignments longer than six months will help the Joint Steering Committee to fight job eliminations. Any worker who witnesses any of these job reduction measures should document and report violations to their Shop Stewards immediately. Joint Steering Committee Members will be present at all membership meetings to fully explain the Company's proposal and the Union's position regarding our current wage negotiations. This week's meetings will be held on Monday and Tuesday with the Joint Steering Committee counting all ballots on Wednesday March 31.