No words can describe how the City has fumbled the ball on this one. As Friday, February 25, 2011 the Department of Transportation is still not certain on how to deal with the recent furlough with repsect to how employees will be paid who worked on 2/21/11. I literally received more than enough revised updates from DDOT and DCHR on Friday.
There is also the matter of the deeply flawed notification process which may cost the City millions in anticipated savings. We advise any employee who has a problem with notification to enter time has holiday Union pay and have mangement do its job and engage the employee.
We are looking into the prospects of filing a grievance over our right to bargain for pay on Holiday's. However, lets be mindful that in all circumstances we will do 32 hours of furlough. Our foucs should be the tornado called DC Budget Deficit coming in April. At least the furloughs guranteed us that NO RIF's will happen between now and upon passing of next budget. Going into the FY12 budget all bets are off and we are looking at a definite impact.
LOCAL 1975 DMV, DDOT, DPW, DCTC
