IAM&AW/DYNCORP CBA Update No. 1

Your elected contract negotiating team, Richard Phillips, Johnnie Mims, Chris Young, Brian Wooley District Lodge 37 Rep Byron Williams and your chief negotiator, Grand Lodge Representatives Brother Tony Blevins, met for negotiations with DynCorp. The Union and Company have exchanged and discussed several issues and proposals. The parties have discussed several issues relating to Non-Economic and Economic issues. Your negotiating team has heard your concerns regarding the issues that are important to the membership “Insurance”. The parties are continuing to exchange ideals related to proposals in an effort of reaching resolution to the issues you brought forward in the membership surveys, meetings, and with your negotiating team members. The number one issue on the table at this time and as brought forth by your negotiating team is the disparity between the previous insurance plan design and the current DynCorp Standard Insurance plan and design. We have reviewed your surveys and furthermore your comments from the surveys. As anticipated, the top issues were established and have been formulated into contract proposals. We are asking for our members support throughout these negotiations and also encourage you to make contact with your committee members and LL 1786 officers with any issues or questions regarding negotiations. Please remember, if we have not addressed the issues here, they are rumors. Please check your District Lodge No. 37 web site and link to your Local Lodge 1786 BLog, for future updates. Additionally, further updates will be forthcoming as negotiations move forward. The Blog can be found via www.IAMAWDL37.org or http://stll1786.blogspot.com/ Please pass this information to anyone that might be able to use it.