NAGE Local R3-10's Email Reponse

Below is the Union's response to the FAA's email regarding the career level review questionnaire.

Tom,

Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter. We have several additional concerns regarding the questionnaire:

The FAA’s questionnaire appears to be detrimental to the spirit or fairness of the career level review process. The FAA is trying to force the bargaining unit members to express in an essay form answers to performance elements that are strictly and solely related to a firsthand evaluation of the bargaining unit member’s current performance and the harm is

1) that if the bargaining unit member is not able to articulate their answers to these firsthand performance evaluation elements to the satisfaction of someone who is completely removed from the bargaining unit member’s work unit (that is, someone in Headquarters, DC reviewing the response of someone in Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center) and who has no firsthand knowledge of the bargaining unit member’s actual performance, other than what the bargaining unit member is able to articulate in the essay, then the bargaining unit member could be denied promotion solely on the basis of their unsatisfactory essay answers and not on a firsthand evaluation of their actual performance and

2)that the FAA could establish this essay process and review by someone completely removed from the work unit as the norm for future promotion considerations of the bargaining unit members instead of using the current established process, as is done with every one else in the FAA, of firsthand performance evaluations by the bargaining unit member’s immediate supervisor using the current performance standards and career level definitions as outlined and defined the FAA’s performance based Core Compensation Plan.

The Union is requesting that the employees’ first level supervisors be immediately incorporated as a component of the career level review process. This would provide an LOB entity with firsthand knowledge.

Rufino Sanchez Jr.