Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey is an opportunity for all employees to express their views on myriad of issues at RMA. It is more important than ever that we all participate in view of the current leadership’s emphasis and commitment to cultural transformation and change.
Please take a couple of minutes and answer the questions in the survey and make sure that your opinion counts!

We have officially agreed and signed off on the new CBA. Check the resources tab for the full document now. Training for the new document will be Feb 13-15 and voluntary, however you are encouraged to attend. Printed copies should be distributed then.

Highlights:

Credit Hours

More flexibility to work hours

Extra telework day

Unlimited ad-hoc telework

In an effort to prevent spreading (wilfull or precipitate) of misinformation by certain managers regarding the rules that apply to telework program, here is an answer to a question circulating the hallways of RMA, “Can I still telework if I am a part-time employee?”
-Yes. The “Memorandum of Understanding RMA Kansas City Bargaining Unit Telework Program” (Telework Agreement) states that “Eligible employees include all RMA bargaining unit employees whose official duty station is Kansas City, Missouri.”
It is infuriating to witness unrelenting and underhanded efforts of certain managers to erode the benefits that the Union won for ALL the bargaining unit employees at RMA through hard work and dedication.
The complete RMA telework agreement can be found on this website in our resources section.
If you have questions about your rights please post a comment on our website. We will post an answer to your question here and you will be helping other bargaining unit members.

Last week, Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced the Public-Private Employee Retirement Parity Act, S. 644, a bill to eliminate federal pensions for all new government hires starting in 2013. Under the deceptively named bill, new employees would no longer receive the pension portion of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). Instead, workers would receive only the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) portion of FERS in addition to their Social Security.

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New York (CNN) — The 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire this Friday should throw into sharp relief recent efforts by lawmakers in Wisconsin and other states in the industrial heartland to curtail collective-bargaining rights for state employees.
The Triangle fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, killed 146 people, mainly women, mainly young immigrant women. Some were girls of 14 and 15. The fire broke out on the upper floors of the factory, too high for fire department ladders of those days to reach. People gathered on the street below watched in horror as women and men jumped to their deaths to avoid the enveloping flames. Observers talked of the sky raining flaming bodies. Many of the workers trapped inside were burned beyond recognition.

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“A unionized public employee, a teabagger, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the teabagger and says, “Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.”

Yet again RMA employees have been treated to a spectacle of secretive behavior and less than scrupulous manipulation, coming from the bowels of the “front office.”

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