New bid sheets and seniority lists have been posted

IBU (amhs)

a  new bid award memo is available here —-> https://ibupak.org/bid-awards-and-vacancies/

Below is the Hot sheet about bills in the legislature that affects labor.

Hot Sheet 3.8.23

Members,

Please see the attached memo to learn about paying your portion for healthcare while in LWOP

https://ibupak.org/wp-content/uploads/Removal-of-LWOP-for-AlaskaCare-Employees_FINAL-1.pdf

Members – a message from our AFL-CIO friends…

Alaska is one of the only states without a defined benefit retirement system. This leaves our dedicated public employees without the proper retirement security they deserve. We need your help to fix that!

On Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, Senator Cathy Giessel introduced Senate Bill 88, which would re-establish a defined benefit pension system for all public employees. This is the first step in getting Alaska back on track and ensuring Alaska’s public employees have a retirement that honors their service to our state.

We need you to send an email to Alaska’s legislators thanking the Senator for introducing SB 88 encouraging other legislators to support this bill as it moves through the Alaska Legislature.
Click Here to Take Action
Together, we can ensure our teachers, firefighters, public safety officers, and civil servants have the retirement they deserve.

In solidarity,

Joelle Hall
President of the Alaska AFL-CIO

Members,

Click the link below to read Karen’s obituary.  There is a Celebration of Life for Karen at The Creek Street Cabaret, 123 Stedman Street in Ketchikan from 1400-1700.

Karen Hanaman Obituary

Contract Results

Deck 40 Yes / 12 No

Engine 15 Yes / O No

Steward 24 Yes / 2 No

Purser 11 Yes /  O No

Total 100 Yes / 14 No

Members,

Anyone who had worked for the Marine Highway prior to September 2019 is already registered on the ibu.org website for voting.  The username is usually your first and last name all capital.  You can reset your password if you don’t remember it, you can also call me or Krissel and we can help you reset it as well..  Anyone hired after September 2019 should call either I or Krissel and we can help you register and set up your account.  Please leave a message if no one answers as we are probably on the other line.

In Solidarity,
Earling Walli

Attention mariners,

If you are renewing your MMC, the USCG will accept shipping labels that YOU need to pay for and send with your MMC application.

Please click here to read the announcement. 

It is with great sorrow that we notify our membership that Chris Gray was hit by a drunk driver on 12/09/22 and was killed.  Below is the link to a gofundme that Chris’s friends had set up to get him home to his mother in El Paso.  We have not heard of an address to send condolences to yet but will update this post when we do.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/christopher-nils-gray

Mr. Walli,

Thank-you for your support and kind words regarding Chris.  I think we’re all still in shock a little bit from the news.

If you and anyone else wishes to reach out Chris’s mom, she would love to hear from you.

Her information:

MELITA F GRAY

4204 RIDGECREST DR, El Paso, Tx 79902

915-544-8162

It took awhile for his remains to be cremated and shipped back to El Paso.  I believe he arrived at his mom’s house last Friday.  I have not heard anything yet about services or a celebration of life, but I will certainly post that on the Gofundme when it’s announced.

Thank-you,

Scott Phillips, Partner

Law Office of Phillips & King

2601 Airport Freeway

Suite 200

Fort Worth, TX 76111

Ph: 817.523.9529

Fax: 817.523.9528