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This Week on Inside Government - May 11th, 2007
Bryan Lowry
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Michael Knowles (CIS C119 President)
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National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council 119
Michael Knowles, President
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Representational News & OpportunitiesOngoing: The AFGE Legal Rights Attorney Program
Urgent - Workforce Restructuring, Surge, FCIP, Time and Motion Studies, Work at Home, Mandatory Overtime, BASIC Training and All Future Representational News. If you are a bargaining unit (non-supervisory) employee of USCIS, we have a host of very important information for you. Please click here to go to our List Server web page and at the bottom of this List Server web page, you will see an area to subscribe to (join) our List Server. After you subscribe, you will get a confirmation email message to your private email address to confirm your subscription. Thereafter, you will start receiving email news of importance from our our Council that we will only be providing through our List Server and to List Server members, and not on this web site. USCIS and National CIS Council 119 Are Bargaining a New Master Collective Bargaining Agreement - Read All About It! (Ongoing)
National Grievances Filed on FLSA Overtime and FLSA Status for (previous)(a) Senior AO's; (b) Program Analysts; (c) Mgt and Program Analysts. 8-12-08 (Click here if you would like a copy.) Volunteer Opportunity: VP at Large (July 31, 2008)(Deadline Aug. 10, 2008) Basic Training Memorandum of Understanding (July 29, 2008) Please click here to go to our List Server web page and at the bottom of this List Server web page, you will see an area to subscribe to (join) our List Server. After you subscribe, you will get a confirmation email message to your private email address to confirm your subscription and then you will receive our email news. Attention Locals! See the attached letter from HQ LER on Regional LER Offices and arbitration invocations. 07-25-08 Service Opportunity: VP at Large (July 19, 2008)(Deadline July 27, 2008) Service Opportunity: Eastern Region VP! (March14, 2008)(Deadline March 27, 2008) C119 Adopts Policy on Temporary Council Officer Replacement During Illness, etc. (Local Presidents/Officers, click here to request a copy of the policy.)(March 5, 2008) The Women's and Fair Practices Departments Disability Rights Campaign. (Feb. 25 2008) C119 Annual Business Meeting Overview Reports, Feb. 9, 2008: Meeting Agenda; President's Report
Executive Vice President’s Report
Secretary Treasurer’s Reports (Internal information. Not available on this web site -- only within the NCISC’s Password-Protected C119-Locals’ group.)
Western Region Vice President’s Report
Central Region Vice President’s Report
Council Strategic Organizing Plan (Internal information. Not available within this web site -- only within the NCISC’s password-protected C119-Locals’ group.)
Council Lobbyist’s Report/Plans for Visiting Hill Feb. 11-14, 2008 Service Opportunity: Acting Fair Practices Coordinator! (Feb. 10, 2008)(Deadline Feb. 25, 2008) C119 Annual Business Meeting Agenda (Feb. 6, 2008) Service Opportunity: Volunteers needed! (Jan. 9, 2008) DHS Provided a Notice to AFGE on Its Proposed Directive for Volunteer Community Service. Please Provide Your Feedback to Our Union Council by NLT Jan. 14, 2008. (Jan. 4, 2008) CIS Served a 9A Notice Regarding New BASIC Facilities and Changes. Please Provide Your Feedback to Our Council by NLT Jan. 9, 2008 (Jan 3. 2009) National Demand to Bargain and Information Request Relating to IIO's Being Assigned N-400 Naturalization Testing and Adjudication Duties (Dec. 28, 2007) Bilingual Pay - AFGE Pushes for 5% Pay Increase (Oct. 22, 2007) USCIS and National CIS Council 119 Are Bargaining a New Master Collective Bargaining Agreement - Read About Our C119 Bargaining Team! (Ongoing) Aspiring Leader Email Announcement (Time Sensitive) (Click Here. July 14, 2007) Recent AFGE Action News
June 3, 2007 - CIS Council 119 DAO Letter/Petition Due to the concerns expressed by DAO's as to the need for agency Time and Motion studies, etc., C119 is sponsoring a confidential, password protected online letter/petition for DAO's. To view this letter/petition and to sign onto it, you must send an email message to Bridgette Rodriguez providing your name, your DHS job title and duty station, and note that you wish to see the DAO letter/petition. Many DAO's are complaining to one another; however, nothing in the history of the world has changed based on just "talk" -- it changes based on good people coming together and acting. So, if you are a DAO, please act on this, share it with your fellow DAO's, and please help bring about positive change! Thanks! June 1, 2007 - CIS Council 119 Responds to Donald Neufeld on Agency Draft DAO PWP Job Element Standards. C119 POC, Bridgette Rodriguez, responded to Mr. Neufeld on June 1, 2007 as to the agency's draft DAO PWP JES. This response (which has voluminous attachments) is password protected. If you would like to view it, you must send an email message to Bridgette providing your name, your DHS job title and and duty station, and request to see the C119 response to Mr. Neufeld therein. May 29, 2007 - Request for CIS Volunteers! >more May 8, 2007 - Agency Draft of Job Element Standards for (D)AO National Performance Work Plan (PWP). For Review and Comment by Locals and Bargaining Unit DAO's. (Deadline: May 18, 2007.) CIS has provided the National CIS Council 119 with a "first draft" of Job Element Standards which may be included in a future national Performance Work Plan for (District) Adjudications Officers. Our Council has set up a password-protected web page which provides the draft DAO PWP Job Element Standards and related information. If you have received a personal e-mail invitation, by name, from Council Secretary-Treasurer/VP Bridgette Rodriguez to review the draft DAO PWP job element standards and provide the union with your comments, concerns and/or suggestions, please click on "THE PASSWORD- PROTECTED DAO PWP PAGE". You will be taken to the DAO PWP page. If you are a DAO who has not received a personal e-mail invitation at your government email address from C119, Bridgette Rodriguez, but you would still like to review the draft PWP job element standards and provide your comments, you must sign up at our C119 list server, and we will contact you, thereafter, at your private e-mail address. (FYI: Local Presidents were previously and separately provided the draft DAO PWP job element information.) For those who take the time to provide your comments, concerns, and/or suggestions, we sincerely thank you for doing so! Bridgette Rodriguez Council S-T May 11, 2007 - Fair Practices Coordinator's Statement to Local Presidents May 10, 2007 - AFGE CIS Council, Local Presidents on "Inside Government" April 18, 2007 - AFGE C119 Letter to Senator Obama April 17, 2007 - AFGE: USCIS Director, AFGE National President Sign Memorandum of Agreement More >
April 16, 2007
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April 13, 2007 - Today, Friday, April 13, 2007 USCIS Communications distributed a USCIS Update entitled, “USCIS Director, AFGE National President Sign Memorandum of Agreement.” The update begins: “USCIS Director Emilio Gonzalez and John Gage, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (AFGE), signed a joint agreement today to advance the close working relationship between labor and management at USCIS.” (Links lead to PDF/Adobe files.) April 12, 2007 - AFGE to Sign Historic Working Agreement with USCIS More> March 29, 2007 - Legacy INS FLSA Update More > March 28 2007 - HOMELAND SECURITY UNION APPLAUDS VOTE REPEALING MAX-HR More> March 23, 2007 - DHS Personnel System (New DHS letters issued to AFGE and AFGE's responses)
March 16, 2007 - Training Opportunities
To: Locals
I gathered known Internet site information on upcoming 2007
training seminars and placed them on one web page, for ready
reference. http://ncisc119.net/trainingcourses.html
The above-noted web page information was compiled based
on information found on the AFGE web site; some AFGE District
web sites; the National Labor College; FELTC and FPMI.
If you are interested in Webinar training (training done by the
Internet and teleconference, simultaneously) for your stewards
because your Local cannot send Stewards to any of the
above-mentioned (pay) training, please respond back to me via
email letting me know what type of training your Local would
like to receive, for whom, and some proposed dates/times.
Bridgette Rodriguez
C119 Secretary-Treasurer and VP at Large
(Communication/training)
March 9, 2007 - AFGE Admonishes DHS For Decision to Implement Personnel System... Feb. 24, 2007 - C119 convention held, new officers elected. (See bottom of webpage for officers' names.) Feb. 24, 2007 - CIS workgroups with C119 designates serving
President: Michael Knowles ; Executive Vice President: Larry Clancy Secretary-Treasurer: Bridgette Rodriguez ; FP Coordinator: Ric Arriaga Women's Coordinator: Rafael Flores ; Eastern Region VP: Lynn Edwards Central Region VP: Kevin Tinker ; Western Region VP: Sondra Gottschalk VP at Large, ER: Roger Williams VP at Large, CR: Tom Oliver VP at Large, WR: David Mills VP at Large, Assistant to the President: Bridgette Rodriguez Do you see a mistake or inaccuracy in this page? Please report it. |
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