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The Fossil spring outage season is underway with many of our plants making repairs and upgrades for the coming summer. Linden Generating Station has some discovery in the way of needed valve repairs that will ultimately extend the outage schedule. GE has disclosed a generator failure due to a manufacturing defect in its 7HA units. This will affect our Sewaren 7 unit's outage schedule, as time will be needed to evaluate and/or repair the defect. We have several of our members from the plants who have bid on and accepted positions in electric distribution. We wish them well in their new positions. We will have several openings in the operations departments of Linden and Kearny Gen; keep an eye on the postings if you know someone who might be interested. WRS continues with the challenges of a lack of work in NJ, and we are looking at all options to assist them any way possible. Within LTS we are working on a training/qualification matrix to refer to when making wage offers for transfers from one group to another internally. We will be meeting again with the company to collectively develop the material. We will again be sending support from the CMS shop to Nuclear for the Hope Creek outage. This work continues to help support the growing role of the CMS welders and machinists as they support Gas Mobile Construction. We have booked the Dinner Dance in Atlantic City this year for Saturday, September 11th. We changed venues from Harrah's to Tropicana after listening to feedback from the attendees about the desire to be on the Boardwalk. Tropicana has a wide variety of attractions within the resort, and the Boardwalk offers endless opportunities. We have secured a block of 71 rooms for the rate of $119 plus taxes and resort fees. We look forward to seeing all of you there.
