Tentative Agreements

This first tentative agreement will concern operations. It gives operators the ability to cancel "one day vacations" after the schedule has been formally posted. In order to cancel a one day, the individual covering the overtime will have to agree/concur to the cancellation. It is #12 in the unions proposal list. You can read the language on this agreement HERE.

Next is our the modification to the purchased vacation policy, which is #10 on the company's proposal list. They asked for the change because of an admin issue for the folks in Bartlesville. We agreed to replace purchasing a week of vacation with unpaid vacation. The days that you can take off remain the same. You can read this tentative agreement HERE. (NOTE: operators are given "up to" eight hours unpaid vacation if they have 4 or 8 hours vaction/holiday pay left over. That way the operator can take a full 12 hours off)

Company proposal #15 is next. We tentatively agreed to modify the banked holidays also. This too was a company item. Operators (and maintenance personnel that work on holidays) still retain the ability to take holiday's time off at a later date. The difference is, we will be paid holiday pay on the holiday. When we take our holiday time off at another date, it will be an unpaid day off. Again all money remains the same, the change is when the employee is paid for the holiday. The tentative agreement on this item is HERE.

We a changed the language as to when an individual in mechanical will be able to bid (Local proposal #20). That new tentative wording is HERE.

This next issue was brought up by the company (#20) and the union (#19) and it too is mechanical issue. The time it takes to move from 2nd Class to 1st Class craftworker has changed. That tentative agreement is HERE.

Next is exemption language for minimum training for operators working on operator training materials (Union #23). This tentative agreement is HERE.

The next item has to do with #3 on the union list of proposals. The tentative agreement is meant to clarify how operator staffing is to take place if part of a progression is in turnaround and other parts remain live. The PDF document on this tentative agreement is HERE.

We have a tentative agreement about overtime meals (company #22, union #22). Read about his HERE.

Next, company proposal #4, we have agreed to increase the probationary period from 90 days to 180 days. The company asked for a 1 year probation for newly hired operators (which a number of COP sites have). We believed that to be excessive, but did tentatively agree to increase it to 180 days. Wording on this item is HERE.

In union proposal #4, we have several items and we have reached a tentative agreement on one of the issues in the proposal. This tentative agreement deal with hourly employees who take a salary job. It is HERE.



I will add more to this list sometime this evening or tomorrow.

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