Just How Has CAS Shown Any Kind Of Recognition..

to the workforce for our contribution?

Several months, ago CAS proposed a 500 dollar bonus to those employees who have been here for ten years or more.  It breaks down to 50 dollars per year, or, as we like to look at it, somewhere around .40 cents per day.  Eye opening and jaw dropping numbers, right? 

Now, the money that they had offered would have come from the reduction in the vacation accrual rate.  In other words, it would have cost them nothing!

Where's their "personal integrity"?  Where's their team spirit?  Appreciate us in a more meaningful way!

More Lies And Insults!

Just what has changed since last year?  Is it the greed factor?  Most certainly!

The stellar management team of CAS would have us believe that their LBFO is fair.  Fair to whom?   Definitely not to us!  

This company waits until October 27th to roll back the vacation accrual rate for the entire workforce.  That date just happens to coincide with the 10 year anniversary date of the first graduating class.  Isn't it wonderful to be so appreciated?  This is a totally classless act.

If CAS wants to compare what they are offering the workforce they should compare their package to what the TSA offers their employees.  Don't compare a package that was negotiated by SEIU with the City and County of San Francisco for the hotel workers.  Let's compare apples to apples.

Has the dollar value of the contract for SFO been decreased?  Positively not!

Has the size of the workforce increased?  Positively not!

So what is the root cause for the drastic changes to our benefits package?  Greed, greed and more greed.

A word of advice: Continuing with your lies and insults would be a big mistake.

The "Plank" Owners' Reward!- Part Two

These offers are so insulting that they cannot go unanswered.

Incoming CAS president, Mike Bolles, has submitted an offer to the bargaining committee that he hopes to have accepted and in place by the beginning of August.  Of course he does!  His hope is to fast track this quickly enough to prevent it from being taken apart.  Well, it's too late!

One of the "insults" is an offer of 21 days PTO and 4 days of accrued sick time.  We know for a fact that the TSA workforce gets 12 hours of PTO and 8 hours of sick time every month.  We also know that Kin Care call outs are based on the number of accrued sick days.  Bolles' plan will result in an excused Kin Care of only two days per year instead of the 6 days that we should have.  ( half of 96 hours per year.)

"Plank Owners" are being asked to accept a total of 200 hours per year instead of 250.9. 

CAS has placed a 50 dollar per year value for a grand total equaling a 500 dollar one time bonus to the Plank Owners.  Each additional year beyond 10 years results in no bonus at all!

So, let's see.  They want Plank Owners to "give" back 50 hours of the PTO that they have waited 10 years for.  This would result in a roughly 1000 dollar hit to each and every one of them.  Oh, but don't worry, they will give you back half of what you are asked to give up so the hit will only be 500 dollars for year 10.  Each and every year after that will result in the full 1000 dollar give back.

The benefit package as a whole is very insulting and it would take too long to list our objections.  Suffice it to say that, "we are not amused."

One more thing before we end this posting.

Is this what Rep. John Mica means when he touts the cost efficiencies and benefits of a private contractor versus the TSA workforce?  Is this what he means when he says that the workforce has more incentive to perform better?  Just how does he formulate these beliefs?  It is all based on lies!

When a company is only focusing on generating as much profit as possible someone has to suffer. 

We will admit that a private contractor does beat the TSA in one aspect, they have really mastered the art of sticking it to their employees!

The "Plank" Owners' Reward!

On October 27th of this year, CAS will be reaching a 10 year milestone
at SFO.  Those employees who have been here since 2002 are considered
to be senior employees and, as such, "Plank" owners. Under the terms
of the original Collective Bargaining Agreement -- which CAS never
thought they would reach -- once the Plank owners reached 10 years of
service, there would be an automatic increase in the PTO rate of
accrual.

Incumbent employees are already receiving the higher rate of accrued
PTO, which, from the information that they have provided to us, is
9.65 hours of PTO every pay period.  This translates into 250.9 hours
of PTO/sick time per year.

In a recent proposal made by the company, CAS wanted to change the
maximum allowance to 21 days of PTO plus 4 days of sick time per year,
for a grand total of 200 hours.

Somehow, CAS feels that the Plank owners should give back 50 hours of
the PTO that they have been waiting 10 years to receive.

Isn't it wonderful to be so appreciated?  Let us not forget: " it's
profit before product", and CAS is only in this for the money.

Once again CAS is targeting Plank owners.  Is there anyone out there
that cannot see this?  In the recent past we have seen multiple
Plank-owner firings, which CAS alleges were justified.

What say you?

Are "Plank" owners being targeted?

There is a growing suspicion that, because of the increased rate of accrual of vacation time, CAS is looking for reasons to terminate those that are close to reaching 10 years of service.

The recent firings of two checkpoint supervisors who, by the way, were Plank owners, does give one food for thought. Is there any substance to this point?

You make the call, we are only passing on something that we are hearing more and more.

Employee Appreciation Day Starts Tomorrow!

What happens when you miss getting the work schedule that you want by one slot? Would you be upset? Of course you would!

With the number of promotions that will be announced "after" the bidding takes place there is the possibility that your seniority number would have been bumped up.

Being bumped up one or two slots would have allowed you to get the schedule that you want for the next six months! Once again management has stuck it to the workforce.

So, when thinking of how the company shows their appreciation to the workforce, think about how you missed getting what you want by one slot.

Oh, we almost forgot! What is our wonderful union doing about this?

The "Original screeners that are still here."

That number gets inflated all the time! An accurate head count is in the neighborhood of 250 Plank owners, plus or minus 15. Let's put this attempt at painting a rosy picture to rest. How about a reality check? Let's ask the EAC to count how many Plank owners we have and post it somewhere, what do you think? We at SecurityFirst@Sfo vote yes!