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Volume 2, #38
July 12, 2002
We have reached tentative agreement with FAA management on the remainder of the pay rules. As soon as these are finalized theyll be posted on our website. This agreement now allows us to proceed to the FMCS Hearing on July 30.
Weve received a letter from ATS-1 Steve Brown advising that furloughs may be necessary if the FAA supplemental isnt passed soon. Ive asked John Dibble to post a copy of this on our website. This is just a preliminary notice, no specific actions are planned at this time. Were doing what we can to help congressionally on this and our hope is that this budgetary matter will be resolved soon.
I met with NATCA President John Carr this week and we also had a telephone conference. Weve agreed that our organizaitons should address mutual areas of concern such as out-sourcing and A76 matters. We also agreed to schedule more regular meetings and to work together more closely.
Wally Pike
Following is an OASIS update from National Representative Jeff Barnes
07/12/02 - It figures...the OASIS program seems to be cooking withgas; everybody getting along and working together to make the program successful. All that means is that someone just had to come in and mess it up. The someone this time is management (of course), specifically mid-level management in air traffic. A source of constant pain in this program for some time now. Air Traffic (ATP) management has gone behind our back and done a severely flawed survey of ATM's regarding facility staffing. They have used those numbers to justify cutting the numbers of OASIS positions and consoles going into most facilities. I've thought about it and I can't come up with any other way to say it...these people are just plain whacked. Everything I have learned so far has led me to believe that there was very little rational thought involved with this effort. Rest assured that we will oppose it every way we can. Oh, and one of the really nice things was how we found out about it. Scott Malon, our ATP Liaison, confronted ATP management in a meeting last week, telling them we have heard of something going on from every region in the country and we wanted to know what was up. An hour or so later Richard Jehlen showed up at his cubicle with some of the information in the form of a memo with an attached spread sheet. The spread sheet had been severely censored, so we could only speculate on what had been cut. Then amazingly enough, we were asked to schedule an Article 9 briefing on this only a few days later. ATP should really stop the cloak and dagger stuff, they just aren't very good at it. While all this is going on all of you getting consoles installed or site surveys done have to stick with the numbers we agreed to before. DO NOT let them tell you that you are getting anything less than what has been agreed to. Any number adjustments that happen will not happen until after negotiations are complete. I will say it again. Our position is that the current numbers of consoles and OASIS positions are the result of negotiations between union and management and are not subject to change unilaterally by management. A bit of a bright note...I met with the program office and the person responsible for the conduct of the console site surveys. It has been made very clear, and everyone understands, that the ONLY equipment position that is not able to be designated by the facility is the standard pre-flight console and the Litton frequency selectors in the standard in-flight console. There had been lingering confusion that needed a face-to-face meeting to clarify (I hope...let me know if you have problems with it). We also got a commitment to offer redesigns to those facilities that have been site surveyed and installed prior to now. The facilities that were forced to place their Denro frequency selectors on the right side of the console will be offered fixes first as this has potential safety implications. The timing of all this is still unresolved as the program wallet is extremely thin for this fiscal year...more on this as I learn it. I just returned from an OASIS Program Management Review (PMR). These occur every one or two months and give Harris and the FAA a chance to see where the program is and where it's going in the near term. Sometimes I find out some pretty neat stuff at these things...sometimes some not so neat stuff. There was a bit of both this time. On the good side Harris is going to begin working on task descriptions to do graphic depiction of TFR's, they're continuing to look at fingerprint identification (no more worrying about what the latest password you set was), and they are going to start to develop task descriptions to provide similar functions to SUA/ISE in OASIS. They are also designing a new way to access graphics from remote workstations that could significantly speed them up. That would be very nice at airshows and other events where we set up temporary stations. On the downside is that I discovered that the NSTS program has asked the OASIS program office to ask Harris to develop task descritions to provide NSTS functionality in OASIS. Not that the functionality is a bad thing. Tha fact that they're all doing this without any input from the union or the Human Factors Team is very bad. It means that they're disregarding the working relationship we had established over the past few years, and that's very disturbing. I really don't like that they're looking to add functionality to OASIS without consulting me or the Human Factors Team. Here's my speculation...The NSTS program found out how many workstations it would have to provide and it had a cow. So they are trying to save money by placing the functionality in OASIS so there's no need to purchase all those workstations. The OASIS program office will support it I'm sure as long as it comes with dollars, some of which could help to address money problems they are facing as the end of the fiscal year arrives. Of course one of the most disturbing parts of these activities is the failure to include the union in them. I thought we had a pretty good partnership relationship going between the union and the agency on OASIS. In fact that is why OASIS is where it is now. However, it seems that the agency has decided to ignore that and return to the bad old days of an adversarial relationship. This is really unfortunate and bodes ill for the future in OASIS and with the broader relationships we have with the agency. Fraternally, Jeff Barnes
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