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C. MARTIN
1/8/2008
Negotiations opened up today with C
Martin Company.
We presented the Company with our non-economic proposal and spent the rest
of the day clarifying any questions that they may have. So far all is going
well at the table. We do expect to have to meet several times with the
Company to reach an agreement.
We will meet with the C Martin Membership at the Frontier Club Wednesday
night after work to talk to the membership and have GLR Figueroa talk with
them.
Bud
1/9/2008
We met again with the Company today and ended the day by signing off several
non-economic issues. We have had a lot of dialogue with the Company and
have a positive outlook in the negotiations process with this Company. We
have scheduled the 30th and 31st of January for our next session.
We also met with the membership at White Sands this evening and GLR Figueroa
talked to the membership and answered question both in Spanish and English.
We surely thank him and GVP Pearson for sending him to help with these
negotiations.
Bud Duryea
2/6/2008
Today we resumed the C Martin
Negotiations. We made some additional progress with the non economics
portion of negotiations and hope to make a lot more progress tomorrow.
The Company seems to be willing to get with it and try to get it done.
We will brief the membership tomorrow evening on the IAM Pension.
More to follow tomorrow.
Your Negotiating Committee
2/7/2008
We finished up most
of the non-economic issues yesterday and look forward to getting in the
economic portion of negotiations today. We have accomplished a lot this
session and look forward to getting on with the economics.
Your Negotiating Committee
2/8/2008
We finished non-economics today with
the only exception being the EBS insurance.
We also presented the Company with our
economics package and will be back at the table
on February 20th to continue negotiations.
Your Negotiation Committee
2/20/2008
We returned to the table today to
negotiate economic issues.
The Company has not responded to all of our economic proposals and has yet
to address wages.
Your negotiating team will stress
the needs of the Membership as negotiations continue.
2/21/2008
We met with the Company today and
they gave us a response to all of our economic proposals.
We are currently evaluating and preparing responses to their economic
counter-proposals.
Your Negotiation Committee
2/22/2008
We continued in the economics of the C
Martin negotiations on Friday and will meet with the Company again Saturday. We are making some progress, but it is moving slow. Proposals
are however being moved back and forth across the table. We will break off
negotiations today and resume the middle of the month.
Your Negotiation Committee
2/23/2008
We have made progress on economic
negotiations, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us.
Due to scheduling issues, negotiations are temporarily on hold until the
week of the 10th.
Negotiations are scheduled to resume Thursday, March 13th.
Your Negotiation Committee
3/13/2008
We resumed negotiations with C Martin
today and it was a long slow day. We discussed several issues, but no real
progress seemed to be made. We hope tomorrow will be a more productive day.
3/17/2008
We negotiated Thursday thru Saturday
and still do not have an agreement. We are scheduled to meet again the
middle of April.
5/05/2008
Negotiations were resumed today and
the Company presented us with some proposals that we will look at before we
go back to the table tomorrow.
5/6/2008
Today we continued with negotiations
(economics) at a snails pace. The company doesn't want to move much on
anything. We will try again tomorrow and see where we get.
We will also do our first strike vote tomorrow evening at the Frontier club
at 4:30 p.m.
5/7/2008
Today we continued with economics.
Again we made slow progress, but TA'd another article.
We also took the first strike vote and had an overwhelming 99% vote to
strike.
5/8/2008
Today was a more productive day and we
have now finished everything in economics except for the big issues to
include wages and health care. There has not been a lot of movement in
these areas. Hopefully tomorrow we will get some movement.
5/9/2008
On Friday, May 9th we reached a
tentative Agreement with C Martin.
The Agreement, that has to be voted and ratified by the membership includes
increases in wages plus a 3% increase in the second year, more
affordable health care cost (the Company pays 85% of the cost), IAM pension
plan, severance plan, recall language, paid holidays, overtime language, on
call pay, vacation and sick leave language, and a grievance procedure. The
Agreement is being translated right now and will be given to the membership
as soon as this is complete.
I have overnighted the documents to the lady to translate and expect them
back
by the end of the week.
Thanks to the negotiating committee for all their hard work
Bud Duryea DBR
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