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Utilize Your Preventive Care Insurance in Higher Seniority Order Drops by Mary Longoria One Thing I Didn’T Know Before I Started Asking Out SERVING ORGANIZED LABOR IN OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON SINCE 1900 INSIDE OUTSIDE PAGES NORTHWEST HE TOFFICIAL PUBLICBATION UOF LLETIN LABOR Amalgamated Transit Union PRESS Local 757 VOLUME 120, NUMBER 19 PORTLAND, OREGON OCTOBER 4, 2019 President’s Roundup By Shirley Block Brothers & Sisters. I am reaching out this month to ask all our members to PLEASE start using your health plan for preventative care, full physicals, and the dental plan for routine cleanings and care. This is something we fight for during negotiations in all contracts. I know there is a privacy concern when talking with someone from the Benefit’s De - parAtmTTenEt,N bTutI OgoNin tgo d airlel cAtlTyU to m yoeumr boewrns wpehroso wnaolr dko acto Tr risiM saefte . — Open Enrollment is right around the corner. If you have questions, pleCasoer vcallll itsh eC oitfyfi cTer faonrs ditirections. voted their contract down because the medical coverage offered wasn’t what they wanted. I can’t stress to all members: When you get your TA contract, please take time to read it over and, if you don’t understand what you are reading, ask questions. Don’t sit back and depend on someone else to do it Visiting Valley Transit in Walla Walla, Washington for you. People read things dif - ATU Local 757 President Shirley Block (second from left), ATU 757 Vice President Jon Hunt (right), ATU Liaison ferently. Officer Mark Brotherton (second from right) and Eb Block (left), are pictured in front of new electric bus at “It’s time for us to go to It was reported to me that the Valley Transit in Walla Walla, Washington. ATU met with the t lockransit agency’s new general manager Angie the big table on October dash lights on the interior of the Peters in August. Peters began her new position July 29. She succeeds longtime general manager Dick Fon - 10th and I, for one, will 4000 series buses are so bright dahn, who retired April 5. She has been with Community Connection in La Grande since 2017. ATU 757 rep - not tolerate the waste of that they cause night blindness. resents 40 members at Valley Transit. my time and resources. If If this is true, please write those TriMet comes to the buses up so they can be dark - ened. table with BS we are TriMet has hired 11 Fare In - Secretary Treasurer’s Report ready to ROCK -N-ROLL. spectors with the understanding Not a threat, just a fact.” that the last two in seniority or - der will be given the training op - portunity, just in case someone Utilize your preventive care insurance in higher seniority order drops By Mary Longoria One thing I didn’t know before I started asking out. The truth of the matter is they need three time this amount. Sisters & Brothers. ATU is taking baby steps to try and get a more productive environ - some questions about utilization of these benefits ment for our members. It’s really hard when you have all new faces I want to take some time to is that dental plaque may contribute to heart dis - and experience walking or being pushed out the door. talk about preventive dental and ease. That got my attention! You have department managers/directors in a tug-of-war with health care. We all get busy and Did you know that most insurances’ yearly each other. It’s time for us to go to the big table on October 10th our work/life schedules seem to checkups are 100% covered? Dental coverage and I, for one, will not tolerate the waste of my time and resources. interfere with seeing the doctor also usually covers 100% for teeth cleanings per If TriMet comes to the table with BS we are ready to ROCK -N- or dentist for preventive services. year, and dental X-rays. Early detection and treat - ROLL. Not a threat, just a fact. I was surprised to find out that, like me, many ment for your health and welfare should be num - We have been lucky over the past few years with mild winters, members do not utilize their preventative health ber one on your “to-do” list. but I think our luck is about to run out. If you think you need some and dental care. I made it a priority to get my appointments additional training for driving in inclement weather, please ask your When I checked how long it had been since I completed by the end of this calendar year. Have managers. A lot of you are new and have probably never driven a had been for some routine you scheduled your exams this year? bus in ice or snow. Now if they won’t give you the training, then screenings, I about fell off my Let’s take our health se - shame on them if their new buses get dinged up because they want chair; it had been over four Did you know that most riously and start utilizing to save money. Remember, you should ask for this training before years. insurances’ yearly checkups some of the preventive I can make excuses, which care that is so important to youS ahlaevme aMn V incident/accident. are 100% covered? Dental had to have a rebid on their routes because they are obviously I have, since I make a long life. It’s up to us to adding new Saturday service. Soon there will be Sunday with the my own appointments. But I coverage also usually covers take the first step and in - think we really need to stop clude our health appoint - extNenEsWionS o Ff LCAheSrHrio Ft’sO. R ALL. TRANSPORTATION LOCA - 100% for teeth cleanings and think about our health in ments in our busy sched - TION DRIVERS ARE IN SHORT SUPPLY. TREAT THEM the long term instead of the per year, and dental X-rays. ules. WELL. BETTER CONTRACTS. short term. In Solidarity. PAGE 2 | October 4, 2019 | ATU LOCAL 757 BULLETIN/NW Labor Press ATU Local 757 Officer Reports hand, then touch a common surface, is TriMet Merlo hope you had a great time. TriMet Center also a way to transmit germs. Who do Well, summer is over, and we are you get to drive the buses if we’re all get - Transportation now into the fall. The new service Transportation As reported by ting sick from the riders? I also suggest change is well under way, and there As reported by MICHAEL M cCURRY DARIN HAGEY getting some anti-bacterial wipes to clean have been some hiccups to start off your work station before you leave the with, but it appears to be smoothing out Hello, Brothers & Sisters. yard. Sometimes, in spite of our best ef - Hey there. You may have seen a lot of me now. As with any major service change, A quick reminder that the new cam - forts, bus operators get sick. Do your best at the garage lately. I have been in meet - if you are having issues or concerns, eras and microphones are going live on to stay healthy: Vitamins, diet, rest, exer - ings and then more meetings with man - make sure to write up an SIR and sub - Oct.1! You know that TriMet has pushed cise! agement. SIPs are being used to nitpick mit it to dispatch. hard to get this system operational, so Take care of yourselves. Stay healthy. at operators for anything that can be used Some of the projects we have been they will most definitely enforce any per - Be safe out there! against you. I know of one manager who, working on have finally come to ceived violations. There are two aspects just because someone complained, tries fruition. For quite some time now, ATU to this new camera/microphone system: very hard to prove that the Operator is al - leadership has been working on creat - 1) It could help us out when some of the TriMet Powell ways wrong. ing and fostering a better working rela - riders are being less than truthful. Sup - A reminder to everyone that if you get tionship between supervisors and oper - Transportation a “See Me” note, it is your right to have posedly, TriMet will throw those com - As reported by ators. Remember, we are, after all, me there! You are entitled to union repre - plaints out, and, 2) TriMet’s review of the KHRIS ALEXANDER brothers and sisters. C-Tran has come sentation! When you receive a “See Me” footage could potentially cause us some to agree with the Union on this, and the note, call your Operations Assistant and supervisor group will no longer be re - problems. So, some friendly advice re - let them know that you would like to set garding these new measures: Tighten up Hello, Brothers and Sisters. sponsible for issuing discipline. Disci - This month at Powell we had two up a meeting for it. For the sake of the pline will now be handled by manage - and lay off on any commentary you few nice managers, set it up as soon as know might get you into trouble, step grievances resolved in the member’s fa - ment. C-Tran has also asked to have vor! Also, a reminder that the imple - you decide. Seek me out for more details. two supervisor positions turned into as - your game up and don’t waste time en - I have had to file more grievances than mentation of audio and video has ar - sistant managers. In return for those po - forcing fares. What has been happening should exist! TriMet refuses to admit they rived, so focus on driving safely and sitions, C-Tran agreed to give the bar - is that as riders try to slip by the fare box are wrong.
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