March 2021 — Distribution South & Central Report

I would like to thank the members of our NXT UP committee who helped us in the move to the new Union hall. We could not have made the transition without them. The State has increased the number of people for indoor gatherings to 25, and the new hall has the room to have that many people and still be able to socially distance from each other. With the rule change, we will be scheduling shop steward meetings in the next few weeks at the new Union hall. We will continue to follow the State guidelines on gathering and make adjustments as needed. Scott is looking to start holding general membership meeting outdoors in the near future. As I reported last month, the Overhead and Underground training has started, and we will continue to talk with the company on how the training is progressing. We will be meeting with the Company to talk about training for Substation Operators next week. I'm sure we will be talking about training for every classification as the State and the Company lower or raise restrictions on the number of people that are allowed to meet both indoors and outdoors. We will make the adjustments needed to keep training ongoing.