ALL LOCAL UNIONS
SYSTEM COUNCIL NO. 2

Dear Sisters and Brothers:

D.A. Moresette, General Director of Labor Relations, will be retiring and Andrea Gansen will be his replacement.  Also, I have been advised of various changes in the Carrier’s Officers of Appeal and Designated Officers to handle claims, grievances, etc., for the Engineering, Mechanical and Communications Department.  This information, along with the maps indicating the area for these regional officers will be forthcoming to all Local Chairmen.  The letter is attached hereto without the map for your ready reference and review.

I have assigned Assistant General Chairman Jim Wisniski, Assistant General Chairman Don Tortorice and Local Chairman 1920 Bob Norton, to give a Powerpoint presentation to CMO Barry Kanuch and his Assistant John Estes on properly educating our members.  I feel it is imperative that we handle and oversee the training of our brothers and sisters in the electrical field, rather than management or another craft.

Vice General Chairman Pat Perry is back to work and continuing his recovery from knee surgery.

I hope that all Local Chairmen have monitored the Protest Rosters and that the current Seniority Rosters are without error.  Also, all Foremen, Supervisors and officials who are not paying dues should either be frozen or removed from the roster based on when they were promoted.  Those promoted prior to the UP Agreement dated June 1, 1981, the MP Agreement of October 1, 1983, are to be frozen and all others removed under the National Agreement of January 1, 1987, are to be frozen.  Those promoted after the respective dates are to be removed from the roster.

All Financial Secretaries should notify this office after sending a two (2) week notice to any individual who is delinquent in dues and if they are unsuccessful in collecting these amounts, then this office should be notified and a proper Union Shop citation will be served.  For those ceasing to pay a Maintenance of Membership fee, again this office should be promptly notified and they will be handled in accordance with the respective CBA’s.

The following correspondence is hereto attached:

1.     Working Familes e-mail on Toyota’s treatment of workers; here
2.     Working Families e-mail on Verizon workers becoming unionized; here
3.     Working Familes e-mail on “golden” pay packages; here
4.     GSK Depression Study; here
5.     Letter from V.M. Speakman, Labor Member for April 2007;here
6.     RRB Scheduled Informational Conferences for April-December; here
7.     RRB Job Vacancies List. here
8.     Newspaper articles on: 
       a) How the Railroads Affect the Cost of Electricity, here
       b) EEOC and BN Railway Agreement to Settle Discrimination Lawsuit here
       c) Union Pacific Profit Jumps 24% Despite Volume Slowdown; here
9.     Marshall Friedman letter of April 6, 2007, concerning injury settlement; here
10.   Follow-up letter from Andrea Gansen, Gen. Dr Labor Relations, on pay
        periods for November and December; and here
11.  SACP – validity of the Western Cullen Hayes Portable Derail e-mail. here

I am also attaching our financial report for the month of March for your reference and review and which is not to be posted or disseminated

Fraternally yours,

Vic Janecek

General Chairman, SC#2