Saturday, May 3, 2008

SSA Manager Should Pot Her Own Plants and Let the EVP Do Her Job

Good Afternoon, Katie!

This is the response to written PACS Discussion you gave to Carol Lewis, EVP, AFGE Local 2505; please place this in her SF-7B Extension File along with your write up.

We take particular issue with your remark that Carol needs to work on her cooperation with you!

Cooperation is part of Level 5 in Interpersonal Skills. (PPM S430_1 , 5.6.1.2). Interpersonal Skills is the ONLY element in which McAlester management rated Carol a 5. So, management is documenting her file to lower her only 5 to a 3 ??!!

Please allow me to REMIND you of the ways in which Carol has been cooperative:

(1) YOU asked her to pick up your daughter from school when she went out on break. She did so.

(2) YOU asked her to pot the bulbs you purchased from another McAlester CR. She purchased the pots and potting soil with her own money and potted the bulbs you gave her to pot.

Short memory?

It is clear that all this is reprisal and retaliation for Carol telling me what is going on in McAlester and management's response to the Union's bargaining requests and grievances. I suggest that management does NOT try to convert our LMR disputes into Carol Lewis performance issues.

I will NOT stand by while management takes pot shots at any Local 2505 officer. YOU may have a short memory. I do NOT.

My offer to sit down with management to discuss everything that is happening in McAlester and nip these problems in the bud (if you'll pardon the pun) still stands, though our issue list is getting longer instead of shorter.

Ralph de Juliis, President AFGE Local 2505

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