Dear members,

Due to reports about the poor condition and safety concerns of District owned vehicles that are used and/or assigned to DCSMEC members, the Union has filed a Grievance against the District in hopes of preventing a catastrophe. In the CollectiveBargaining Agreement the District agrees to “provide a safe workplace-and such safeguards as are necessary to reduce or eliminate accidents” which we feel the District is not doing.

In most areas where vehicles are used by DCSMEC employees, Management has informed us that there is currently no vehicle maintenance records or preventive/scheduled maintenance and therefore the current condition of the vehicles are unknown.

The obvious poor condition is well known. The DCSMEC Union has prepared (as part of the Grievance process) a vehicle inspectionreport which will be distributed to unit members who use District vehicles.

This report solicits general observations about the condition of the vehicle and is not meant as a comprehensive mechanical inspection, however it will give us a much better picture of the overall condition of the fleet as well as a guide for prioritizing repairs and/or replacement of vehicles. We ask all DCSMEC unit members to please participate in this effort so that we may   verify the extent of the disrepair of the fleet.

It has been agreed to that Management will provide these vehicle inspection reports to the employees prior to the annual vehicle audit. The employees can, prior to the audit, fill out the report and return them to a DCSMEC representative who will be working in conjunction with the auditor, the day of the audit.

We thank everybody in advance for participating.

Joe Cortese

The DCSMEC training session conducted on Saturday, June 13 was a great success we thank all the members who attended, we appreciate the wonderful comments as per your request we are tentatively preparing for session number two for Saturday, June 27 location to be announced.

Honorable John Mills, will be assisting with the June 27 training meeting we request members wishing to attend RSVP via email to dcsmecjoe@gmail.com or call 305 477-6002 and say you are registering then provide your name, employee number and the number of hours you still need, this will help to determine how long a session we need to set up.

Keep in mind this service is free to DCSMEC members only, we look forward to a successful second training session.

The steward meeting that was scheduled for Tuesday, June 16 has been moved to Tuesday, July 21 which is to be held during the general membership meeting. Please make an effort to attend it next month.

Thank you.

DCSMEC Will be conducting training meetings beginning on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at the toys conference room.

The meetings will be held in two parts, a morning session from 8:00 AM to 12 :00 PM and afternoon session from 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM.

Each session counts for 4 CEU Credits and members can attend either session or both, this meetings will be conducted free of charge and are for DCSMEC MEMBERS ONLY.

The Honorable John Mills, will be assisting with this training meetings we request members wishing to attend RSVP via email to dcsmecjoe@gmail.com or call 305 477-6002 and say you are registering then provide your name, employee number and which session you will be attending the morning, afternoon or both.

If you are having a problem logging in please get assistance from one of our yard reps or Stewart’s.

PS:
We changed phone service recently, following Trustee request to save $, and now our phone is not rolling over to our answering service and our fax machine is out. I’m working the problem right now and hope to get this sorted out we regret the inconvenience.