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http://www.defenselink.mil/Contracts/Contract.aspx?ContractID=3345 September 25, 2006 Sikorsky Support Services, Inc., Pensacola, Fla., is being awarded a $119,169,702 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced, cost-reimbursable indefinite-delivery requirements contract (N00019-06-D-0017) to exercise an option for contractor logistics support services for the T-34, T-44, and T-6 aircraft. Work will be performed at the Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi, Texas (40.42 percent); NAS Whiting Field, Fla. (39.37 percent); NAS Pensacola, Fla. (12.07 percent); NAS Lemoore, Calif. (1.84 percent); NAS Oceana, Va. (1.57 percent); Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, Calif. (.79 percent); Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md. (.79 percent); Aviation Technical Test Center , Fort Rucker, Ala. (.79 percent); Naval Air Facility, El Centro, Calif. (.52 percent); Pope Air Force Base, Fayetteville, N.C. (.52 percent); NAS Jacksonville, Fla. (.52 percent); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (.26 percent); NASA Cleveland, Ohio (.26 percent); and Fort Eustis, Va. (.26 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity.
District Lodge 75 Business Rep REPORT Saturday, June 10, 2006 Dear Brothers and Sisters: I want to inform you that contact has been made with the Senior Human Resource Manager of Sikorsky Services, Ms. Erica Lapish, and plans are being drafted to have a date and time to meet and confer on the proposal of a bridge agreement. As most of you are aware, your current CBA is a document that was signed by your elected Union representatives and your current employer, L-3 Communications Vertex, LLC. After June 30, 2006, you will no longer be employed by this Company and therefore, the CBA will no longer be binding upon the Company. Our intent and interest, as many have contacted me in regards to, is to bridge the current agreement in its entirety, including pay and benefits, for the remaining duration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. For the T-6 Bargaining Unit at NAS Pensacola, that would be until February 21, 2007. For the T-34 Bargaining Unit at NAS Whiting Field, that would be until May 25, 2008. However, I would remind everyone that the Number One priority at this time is the re-employment of 100% of the hourly bargaining unit employees in their current positions. L-3 is cooperating fully in the process and I ask that everyone continue to do their job in a safe and efficient manner up to the last day of the L-3 tenure. It is true, that even if Sikorsky Support Services did not recognize the Union (which they are required to do once 51% of the current bargaining unit is hired) or bridge and honor the current ratified collective bargaining agreement; by the Service Contract Act, the wages and equivalent in fringe benefits must be paid to the employees working in those classifications which the labor agreement stipulates those wages and fringe benefits to be, as established through arm-length’s negotiations, for a period of twelve (12) calendar months. After that period, the Area Wage Determination will take precedence for the establishment of the wages and benefits. In 1999, Local Lodge 2777’s TH-57 Bargaining Unit foolishly agreed to work without a CBA when over twenty-four of their fellow brothers and sisters were not picked up by the successor contractor. They failed to demonstrate the resolve to hold the successor contractor to terms of fairness and justice. I myself, was one of those not picked up by the successor contractor and was never told why. It was only after 26 days of unemployment was I offered a job at one-third of the wages I was making only one month earlier. The only reason I was offered a job on the contract was due only to the bridge agreement and preferential hire list, our then elected Business Representative, was able to negotiate. It wasn’t his fault that I was not continued in employment with the successor contractor, but only due to the lack of backbone and tenacity of my fellow co-workers. The majority was too concerned with their own employment status that they could not see the value of what they were throwing away through their own selfish actions. And during the successive negotiations, we all paid dearly! That is why I approach contract turnovers with a fervor. I know that you will too. Today, June 10, 2006, the T-34/44 Bargaining Unit in Corpus Christie, Texas, is taking their pre-sanction strike vote. I am sure they will have the resolve to ensure their contract is bridged with full 100% benefits in language and economics. Knowing that Local Lodge 2777 has learned their lesson from the example of the TH-57 contract in 1999, I am planning a Bargaining Unit meeting for the T-34’s in Milton and a meeting for the T-6’s in Pensacola for June 24, 2006. The exact time and location will be posted as arrangements are finalized and posted on your Union bulletin boards and your Local Lodge web site. If a bridge agreement has been negotiated at that time, please be prepared to have the terms and conditions of such agreement presented to you for your consideration and vote. If the terms and conditions are not changed from the current ratified agreement, there will be no vote as you have already voted on those terms and conditions. However, if there is no bridge agreement settled by June 24, 2006, just as the T-34/44 Bargaining Unit in Corpus Christie, Texas, is demonstrating their resolve today by voting for a pre-sanctioned strike vote, you will be given that same opportunity at the June 24, 2006, meeting. Danny Givens ,IAMAW District Lodge 75 Business Representative
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