General Membership Meeting-AFSCME 404
June 15, 2023
4:30pm
Present:
Travis Snyder, Antonino Guerrero, Rick Pitts, Mike Hohenstein, Steaed Doehring, Tom Keck, Andy Odeguard, Thea Lillo, Cory Moon, Annie Jakacki, Deb, Ryan Cates, Erin Wiederich, Jamie Schwartz, Matt Stenger, Kyle Heinze
My apologies for anyone that I missed via zoom or in the room.
1.Secretary Report:
Motion to approve meeting minutes by Erin Wiederich. 2nd by Rick Pitts. Motion passes.
2. Treasurer-Antonino Guerrero:
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSES FOR MONTH ENDING: March, 2023
CASH BALANCE BEGINNING OF MONTH: $203500.25
INCOME FOR THE MONTH: $7720.75
EXPENSES FOR THE MONTH: $9968.55
CASH BALANCE ENDING OF MONTH: $201252.45
SAVINGS: $153,509.36
SUBMITTED BY: Antonino Guerrero
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSES FOR MONTH ENDING: April, 2023
CASH BALANCE BEGINNING OF MONTH: $201252.45
INCOME FOR THE MONTH: $7520.21
EXPENSES FOR THE MONTH: $8643.12
CASH BALANCE ENDING OF MONTH: $100129.54
SAVINGS: $254073.37
SUBMITTED BY: Antonino Guerrero
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSES FOR MONTH ENDING: May, 2023
CASH BALANCE BEGINNING OF MONTH: $100129.54
INCOME FOR THE MONTH: $7677.81
EXPENSES FOR THE MONTH: $10267.07
CASH BALANCE ENDING OF MONTH: $97540.28
SAVINGS: $254825.15
SUBMITTED BY: Antonino Guerrero
Motion to accept subject to audit by Matt Stenger. 2nd by Kyle. Motion passes.
3. Correspondence:
4. Old Business: Negotiations update, contract language is either settled or dropped so that they can focus on getting financials decided. This is year is moving faster than ever before since the budget has already been decided.
5. New Business:
1.Schedules for FMHP are going to change- 12-hour shifts are going to be in every grove. The 10-hour NOC shifts will be posted permanent reassignments so that they can make sure there’s enough interest in ten-hour NOC shifts. 11 volunteers are needed to go to NOC shifts so that 10’s can get implemented. The new shifts for FMHP will be 6:30a-2:30p, 1:30p-9:30p,9p-7a and 8a-8p for the 12-hour shifts.
2. Next week is push week and that is when the dollar amounts are getting decided. Then they will have a delegate’s assembly in July. Motion was made to pay for loss time and mileage to those that will be attending the delegates assembly in July by Matt Stenger. 2nd by Jamie Schwartz. Motion passes.
6. Items from the membership:
1. A member asked when more roundings, aka site visits, for officers to get to different work areas, are going to happen. Union leadership is going to work on getting that to be more common practice.
2. A member asked about what the union leadership is doing to try to retain and motivate nonpaying members into staying with the union. Union leadership continues to work at talking to members and explaining what the union can do for the membership.
3. A member brought up the concern of people refusing their inverses and asked that people be respectful of others when thinking about refusing an inverse. It only hurting other coworkers when you refuse.
4. A member asked about whether management is going to allow the splitting of overtime. Management wants to wait until the new shifts get rolled out to see if there will be as much interest in doing this since the overtime shifts will be smaller. Management is also looking into the HSSS/FSS sharing overtime. Splitting overtime is probably going to be on the employee’s initiative. Bonus was also brought up as a concern from a member on how that will be handled if people split of bonus qualifying shift. Union leadership will ask about this when discussion is had about the splitting of overtime shifts.
5. HR responding to emails is going to be addressed by HR. HR director is resigning from Forensics so that’s an issue along with staffing in the rest of the HR department.
7. Good and Welfare: If you have something that you’d like the Local to acknowledge in the good and welfare department, email Jamie Schwartz or Cory Moon. It was decided that the Local will donate to members that have met the threshold of vacation donation or having benefits. Local plans to give $404.
Al Aspland’s mother died.
8. Officer Reports:
President: Ryan Cates- This past month I have…
Attended and led Forensic Meet and Confer- Notes are attached to the meeting minutes.
Attended MSOP Meet and Confer- Notes are attached to the meeting minutes.
Chaired the Executive Board meeting
Chaired the General Membership meeting
Filed multiple grievances and sat investigations.
Talked with members in multiple work areas, answered their questions and listened to their concerns.
Presented and argued grievances.
Communicated information to E-Board members about issues facing the Local.
We continue to push for changes to the vacation process in FMHP, that will allow more members to take vacation when they want to.
Attended supplemental negotiations where the contract that applies to only our Local was negotiated.
Our contract is being negotiated as I write this. Our raises, benefits and working conditions are being decided at the state level. If members are unhappy with what we are offered by the state, they need to vote NO on the contract. The only way we are going to force the state to offer us better contracts is to say no and potentially strike. We are a democracy, and the majority rules so vote and make your voice heard.
If any member of Local 404 feels they are not being represented by our Union, please let me know. We cannot fix problems if we do not know there is a problem.
We ask that all members who are interviewed as non-subjects in an investigation, request Union representation. If management refuses, then members should refuse to answer questions. Participation in investigations is completely voluntary and they cannot coerce you to answer their questions. We need to do this to compel management to discontinue their practice of refusing to allow Union representatives into investigations.
VP: Matt Stenger-
VP: Eric Hesse-
Executive Board: Chief Steward Rick Pitts-
Executive Board: Chief Steward - Eric Manriquez-
Executive Board: Chief Steward Nick Weerts-
Executive Board: Chief Steward Marvin Sullivan-
Executive Board: Chief Steward Cory Moon
Executive Board: Chief Steward James Kibler
Executive Board: Chief Steward Steve Wilking
Executive Board: Jamie Schwartz
Executive Board: Mike Hohenstein-
Executive Board: Steaed Doehring-
Annie Jakacki-
Motion to adjourn by Matt. 2nd by Kyle. Motion Passes
Meeting Adjourned at 4:55pm