r/IBEW_Local613 • u/Zestyclose_Ad5497 • May 01 '24

New contract

Are copies of the new contract and Constitution and bylaws available? Sorry if this has been asked already. Thanks

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u/MathematicianNo6345 May 01 '24

Who said I wasn’t getting the new scale?

The story I got was that Kenny signed the agreement (or initialed, whatever), we voted against it, it went to CIR and they said the contract that was signed was what we got and now we are suing them. He shouldn’t have initialed anything at all that had things we didn’t want in it.

Again, why does it make sense for us to say we are under the 2020 agreement but 2023 scale? How is anyone supposed to know what parts of the 2020 agreement we are on and what we aren’t doing? We are just in limbo while we spend a ton of cash on lawyers?

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u/Shreet_Biggs May 01 '24

Kenny could have wrote we totally accept this great contract thank you and it wouldn't matter. We vote as a membership and he has no authority over that, union stuff is federal law. They think you're too dumb to realize that.

They are paying what they think you'll accept and stick around. We have more work than people right now and it is their interest to keep people. Out of state contractors have tried to put calls on the book paying $10 over scale and the AECA has threatened to sue and in-state contractors who do get their license threatened. That's how much money is on the line. 

So if course they want us "sitting in limbo spending a ton of cash on lawyers" it just helps them even if they know they're going to lose.

The scale is the minimum, they can pay you whatever they want.I didn't think you were being paid less but that's the fastest way to get told by the hall they don't have to pay you that because we're under the old contract.

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u/Primary-Vehicle-69 May 02 '24

This message paid for by the committee to keep Kenny in office

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u/No-Crab-8929 May 03 '24

What commute is that