Local 100 should not screw its retirees. Rather than employ staff from the street we recommend that the retirees be employed. They should be afforded preferential status, due to the fact that they were once members.
It is rumored that some of the staff who were employed from the street have no knowledge of the issues that face the rank and file. The central question is why retirees are not afforded that courtesy by Samuelsen and TBOU?
The retirees have worked their whole life in the transit system, and have been good members who are familiar with the issues that face the current membership. Therefore we feel that they should be welcomed in the union hall and be given staff positions.
Those staffing decisions made by Samuelsen are a surprise because they only further lend credibility to the fact that morale is on a downward spiral among the membership. Retirees who are willing to serve and render their public service in the Local 100 in an uncompensated manner should be able to do so. We see that as an appropriate way to move forward. With the current load of the staff that was employed from the street who get their compensation packages which don’t justify or enhance the benefit to the membership.
We demand that the staff regardless of their ranking, position or level who were hired from the street that their compensation package be based on this formula:
1. their hourly pay rate should be based on the lowest pay of a member title
2. work a 40 hour week
3. be paid for 20 hours
4. 20 hours as uncompensated public service
5. contribute to their health benefit
6. contribute to their pension
7. no wage increase
It is rumored that those staff are pulling hefty paychecks and we demand that Samuelsen and TBOU do the right thing. Do not screw the retirees, afford them a preferential status and let them play a role in the future of Local 100 as uncompensated public service.
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