VEHICLE MAINTENANCE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER BROTHER ERIC BASIR

MONTHLY REPORT 02/2024

13 FEBRUARY 2024 / 11204 S. WESTERN, CHICAGO IL 60643 / 779-456-6460

SHOP TALK NEWSLETTER

ISSUE 5: Insurance scams, invitation to write, Second Class Program petition,
concerns survey, ULP update, insurance in the Contract, Truck Shop Survey,
Graffiti Removal Track, my expulsion from the Board Meeting. Additional issues
are on hold while I spend time on fighting false charges served by fellow
officers.

SURVEY RESULTS

New Union Lawyer Survey Results (https://forms.gle/5juceszoah6siToL9)

Could you as our attorney make sure our arbritration is moved faster than
previous arbritrations that are 2 years or more.

Retiree Sign Survey (https://forms.gle/taq8mUoCASF6s6vg6)

Five responses. Am delegating non-Shop workers to appropriate Board members.

REGISTRATION, VIRTUAL MEETINGS

● Virtual Union Hall registration: A total of 117 registered. I need to
visit shops in person to boost the totals.
● Virtual Meetings: I have been distracted with fighting the false charges
and had very little energy to organize more meetings.
● Sessions in 2024: 1/08, 1/21

FACILITY VISITS, ULP’S, GRIEVANCES, COMPLAINTS & BAD MANAGERS

 1. Unfair Labor Practice Charges: The CTA has responded to my ULP (L-CA-24-
009) and is denying any guilt for violating protected speech. I am still
awaiting a response from the ILRB.
2. Various complaints and issues: I am receiving unprecedented calls,
messages and one-on-one complaints from members who are being punished
for sickness, denied worker’s compensation, denied their choice for
union representation, manager harassment and unsafe working conditions.
We need to invest in training them to become stewards. I am hoping my
recommendations as per the Local 308 bylaws will be honored. Almost all
punishment hearings have been related to sickness. We need to strike for
accruable sick days. Our members are literally dying out here! SCP
“Apprentices” are punished according to a more severe version of the
CAG. I submitted a class action grievance about it. See attachment.
3. Mismanagers List: I am keeping a spreadsheet of outlaw and tyrannical
managers. It is growing by the week. Send me names and I will add.
4. False charges: I have gathered over 115 signatures to promote the voting
down of the false charges by fellow union officers. We need to focus on
issues like accruable paid sick time and other important things in our
Contract. Not trying to silence officers who we dislike. See attachment.

HAZARDS
We need laptops for every Rail Car Repairer NOW. This is an essential tool. We
are sharing 1-3 laptops and they are mostly barely working. We need a $1000+
tool allowance. No less! We need to organize multiple meetings to improve the
Excel program. But frankly, if I don’t get my prescribed 6 days off per month—
as per the bylaws—I can barely do anything to help my department.

REFERENCES
BLOG: https://ericbasir308.blogspot.com
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ericbasir308
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWWzazxqzKXv30jeQioA5g
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Short Report
To: Sister President Pennie McCoach
From: Brother Vehicle Maint. Rep Eric Basir

Travel and Time Log (Does not include report writing)

0651 Bus 112 to 95th Terminal
0700: 95th Servicer: Says Mgmt here is terrible. Gonna pick out next Pick. Gave her Shop Talk and
offered to help do WC on mgr. Wants to know the status of grievances and process timelines. Gave a
card and suggested to call me so I can give her flowchart and referral.
0733: Arr Lake. Met RSM workers on the way to CTA HQ. Answered questions, informed and listened.
0805: Arr Starbucks. Study Union Steward Guide book.
0830: Arr CTA HQ. Check in. Meet with ET
0845: Rosado takes us to a meeting. Exceptionally professional for a CTA manager.
0940: Finished with coworker ET.
0945: Saw two coworkers TJ and DB who were laid off from SCP, dropping off their vests for Aaron
Simon.
1000: Aaron Simon took DB and confirmed did not want me present. Aaron Simon appeared surprised or
annoyed by my presence. Made TJ turn in vest, bump cap and flashlight and promised receipt. Still
waiting.
1025: TJ wanted to leave. No receipt. We decided to stay in touch. I took a picture of his receipt.
1035: Boarded Pink Line to 54th
1100: Arr 54th. Check in at the shop office and visit. Spoke with multiple members. Listened to
complaints about needing more pay so we don’t rely on overtime and lose health and free time.
Discussed the importance of organizing for strikes and showing up at membership meetings. Posted
virtual union hall posters and distributed Shop Talk in the breakroom.
1335: Dep 54th
1345: Phone call with member SB about the case. Video update to members at Lake.
1500: On 112 bus homebound.

Session: 2024-01-10
Date 1/10/24
Start Time: 6:56 AM
End Time: 3:16 PM
Duration: 8.33
Category: P-Union Day

Case: Brother Eddie Thomas (ET) She said just received requested info on previous case regarding
marijuana use card holder. No information about that on record. I never received it either. I suggested with
you newly taking office, it was chaotic and not intentional. So we chose to take more time to get the total
medical note—not a card—from ET doctor. Got email from her today to confirm all he needs to do is email
her and I the note. Then she will notify us of the next step. He seems to have accepted that he will be
terminated, but wants to go down fighting and I pledged to support him. He is very clear on strategy and
may choose to resign instead so that he can possibly rejoin the CTA at a later date. We both agreed that
Manager Rosado seemed accommodating for us to caucus. We agreed to keep you in the loop.

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Short Report
Thursday January 25, 2024
To: Sister President Pennie McCoach
From: Brother Vehicle Maint. Rep Eric Basir

Travel and Time Log (Does not include report writing)

Session: 2024-01-10
Date 1/25/24
Start Time: 3:45 AM
End Time: 1:42 PM
Duration: 9.54 hours
Category: P-Union Day

Session2024-01-25 1/25/24 3:45 AM 1/25/24 5:45 AM 1.99 84.35 P-Travel

Divvy bike to Terminal Red Line 826 departs 0421 late. Notified CW and CS Left message with Mgr Kara
because he was not in office. Obtained Train Delay Slip

Session2024-01-25 1/25/24 5:45 AM 1/25/24 6:30 AM 0.75 31.90 P-Punishment

CW

Session2024-01-25 1/25/24 6:30 AM 1/25/24 6:45 AM 0.25 10.63 P-Protected

Speech (Protest video available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/hjIjyQb7-Rc?si=2vAWn016Ux8LRzet)

Session2024-01-25 1/25/24 7:00 AM 1/25/24 7:58 AM 0.97 41.11 P-Travel

Trains to Kimball

Session2024-01-25 1/25/24 7:49 AM 1/25/24 8:30 AM 0.69 29.06 P-Informational

Visit with Servicers on platform. Spoke with Repairer in breakroom. Distributed newsletters in breakroom.
I asked Manager Hurst if I could speak with members for 5-10 minutes. He said no. Manager Teya called
me to her office and told me she would not tolerate me disrupting work ad I could only meet with workers
during a lunch. Spoke with group of Second Chancers on lunch. Gave them cards and tips how to
survive.

Session2024-01-25 1/25/24 8:31 AM 1/25/24 9:30 AM 0.98 41.82 P-Travel

Kimball to CTA HQ

Session2024-01-25 1/25/24 9:45 AM 1/25/24 12:15 PM 2.49 105.62 P-Punishment

At CTA HQ with ET and SB. ET chose to resign. SB was unjustly fired. Grievance writing for SB.

Kind Project Start Time End Time Duration Cost Category Notes
Session2024-01-25 1/25/24 12:16 PM 1/25/24 1:42 PM 1.42 60.25 P-Travel

Total: 9.54

Cases: Despite my arguments of retaliatory and unfair punishment against Brother Charles Williams,
Manager Chris Sandoz was insistent that he was guilty of “poor work performance.” Sandoz is a known
taskmaster and bully when it comes to workers who want to work safely. I know from first-hand

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experience. He had been after Charles for the entire Pick and got his chance. I wrote a grievance for him.
He seemed demoralized. I am not sure he will turn it in. I organized a flash protest around 6:30 am.

Brother Eddie Thomas chose to resign. I told him I supported whatever decision he made. I did email my
congressman to plead for changes to the FTA drug policy: Medicinal use of marijuana needs to be free of
penalties.

Sister Sheletha Bohannan was terminated. Despite my clear arguments that skipping CAG steps to
immediate termination and discrimination for being in ARC were not right, Manager Aaron Simon insisted
on punishing her. He refused to show me where in the Contract or CTA Rules where he could fire her for
one violation. She signed it. I suggested she write “unfair” on it. I immediately wrote a grievance for her
and she accepted it.

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Short Report
To: Sister President Pennie McCoach, Brother Vice Presidents Mark Weems and James Battle
From: Brother Vehicle Maint. Rep Eric Basir

Travel and Time Log from descending order (Does not include report writing)
Kind Project Start Time End Time Duration Cost Category Notes
Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 2:51 PM 1/31/24 4:48 PM 1.95 82.93 P-Travel
Forest Park to Lake Lake to 95th

Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 12:57 PM 1/31/24 1:50 PM 0.88 36.86 P-Punishment

Ashley Graham 847-727-8274 [email protected] Goals: I need job rejections. Possible Report to
Mgr w Union Complaint. Possible Grievance. ARC 70205 form. I need why sedgwick denied. Illness.
Sedgwick claims. 2 instances. 6 call offs. 1-3 days 2-3 days FMLA none for 1200 hours or a year
Waiting for paperwork from hospital. Manager said she is a medical risk. Green: “I really hope there is
something wrong with you.” 9/30/2023 Applying for other jobs but no response.

Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 12:11 PM 1/31/24 12:57 PM 0.75 31.90 P-Informational

Talk with coworkers

Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 11:10 AM 1/31/24 12:10 PM 1.00 42.53 P-Travel

Travel to DP Shop. Instructor gave me a ride from Rosemont to Forest Park DP Shop.

Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 6:43 AM 1/31/24 11:00 AM 4.28 181.46 P-Informational

Coworker Injured at work. Carrying and fell on defective guard near lift track C. Right knee and right wrist.
I see severe swelling in wrist. Recommended she go to ER. No emergency paramedic desired but filling
out IOD packet and will see doctor today. 773-691-8972 [email protected] Kruszecka,
Malgorzata

Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 6:03 AM 1/31/24 6:43 AM 0.65 27.64 P-Punishment

Chris Donald 773-499-6969 [email protected] Tardies 1/15 coldest day of the year. 3 minutes
late. Tardy in September. 2020 since. Started as Second Chance. Never missed a day. Lolita.
Attendance. We are at 1st step of excessive absenteeism. She read the writeup. He entered comments.
There were three tardy marks not charged. I signed.

Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 5:08 AM 1/31/24 6:03 AM 0.92 38.99 P-Punishment

Deandre Noy Missed 2 days. Grandma needed to attend while sick. 2-days. Called in both days. October.
Good work. 262-631-0028 [email protected]

Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 3:21 AM 1/31/24 5:07 AM 1.75 74.43 P-Travel

Run #? From Forest Park to O’Hare Wrote follow up email to RB
Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 2:58 AM 1/31/24 3:20 AM 0.37 15.59 P-Punishment
Found Ryan at Forest Park platform Notified coworker he needed to go to Shop for meeting. Agreed to let
us go. Is caretaker of Sick brother No FMLA Goals: 5-15 minutes early pledge, FT jobs, ARC, Grievance
Manager Melvin was respectable. Many tardies made it difficult to get any relief. I advised him that one
more and Manager Hell will likely fire him. She is merciless. Mom is caretaker with him. He said he will
talk with her about this. 630-988-7569 [email protected]

Session2024-01-31 1/31/24 1:00 AM 1/31/24 3:57 AM 2.95 125.46 P-Travel

Divvy bike to 95th Delayed by freight train 0120 Run #? to Lake Phone calls to Kimball and DP Shop

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confirmed RB is at Forest Park platform. Told that Manager is driving between shops. Will need to call
when I arrive at Forest Park station. Intend to find RB there and discuss case and hope to get earlier
meeting. 0200 Run to Forest Park 0300 Arr Forest Park

Total
15.50 hours

Summary: The CTA mismanagement is brutally mistreating us through violation of Article 1.1 “…to
provide the best possible working conditions…” It is anything but that with the punishment we receive for
being sick and caring for sick dependents.

These writeups and terminations would not exist if we had Full Time Jobs For All and accruable paid sick
days. We need to organize the workers for strikes to get the justice they need. Otherwise, we will continue
to clean up the bloody mess of our destruction by our employer and have no power to stop it.

Managers Lolita, Stacey and others are cruel and brutal taskmasters who terrorize the members. We
need to help members write up and protest against these evil people.

The Second Chance Program is an abomination and must be eliminated or changed in the 2024
Contract1. The CTA is punishing them unfairly and more harshly than the rest of the FTP, FTT and PTT
workers.2

1
Attachment 0 (Draft Proposal) Second Chance Apprentice.pdf
2
Clarifications Specific to the Second Chance Program-Revised 2/11/15

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Never Quit Fighting

Shop So We Can Win!

EB: Did you know that non-working
areas at the CTA are areas of free
speech? The mismanagers don’t want

Talk
you to know this because it helps
them to keep us ignorant of law
(and their own rules).
This summer, a CTA mismanager
threatened to punish 98th Street
Shop workers because someone posted
The Official Local 308 fliers criticizing the CTA employee
“appreciation” in the locker room.
Newsletter for I was present during this bizarre
Servicers, Repairers tirade and promptly submitted a
& Motor Blowers Local 308 Workplace Complaint and
an Unfair Labor Practice Charge
with the Illinois Public Labor
CTA Workers Beware: Relations Board (ILRB).
On Jan. 8th, I received a notice
Insurance Scams from the ILRB and I was pleasantly
surprised from what I read.
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use our union or credit union name
is a scam.
You Can Write
They are ripping you off.
For Shop Talk!
I got one case of a coworker who
EB-This newsletter is for
is trying to submit a claim, but
informing and motivating CTA
cannot get any response whatsoever.
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It a powerful tool in
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 Issue No. 5
Shop Talk Newsletter

President Pennie’s Attempt

Contract To Have Me Arrested
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reason: I am office for what I say
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ERIC BASIR CHICAGO IL US 1/10/24
Michelle Burke Chicago IL 60707 US 1/10/24
Renato Guzman Chicago IL 60661 US 1/10/24
Davis Irwin w Clarksville TN 37042 US 1/10/24
Tyran McWilliams Chicago IL 60644 US 1/10/24
kathryn strzelecki Chicago IL 60645 US 1/10/24
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Jason Cardenas Brookfield IL 60513 US 1/10/24
robert thomas Chicago IL 60622 US 1/10/24
Thomas Elliott Chicago IL 60613 US 1/10/24
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Kaled Abdelal Chicago IL 60639 US 1/10/24
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Gerardo Ortiz Chicago IL 60632 US 1/10/24
Hilario Rodriguez Chicago IL 60641 US 1/10/24
vanessa vega Chicago IL 60618 US 1/10/24
Brian Storce Brookfield IL 60513 US 1/10/24
Carlos Jimenez Chicago IL 60620 US 1/10/24
Aundra Thompson Park Forest IL 60466 US 1/10/24
Alexander Guzman Rockford IL 61108 US 1/11/24
Stephanie Zing Chicago IL 60629 US 1/11/24
Satyaki Bhattacharya Kolkata 700059 India 1/11/24
Andrew Gutierrez Rio Rancho NM 87144 US 1/11/24
Frank Giyo Chicago IL 60638 US 1/11/24
Timothy Clemons Chicago IL 60624 US 1/11/24
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Pam Goffin Worth IL 60482 US 1/12/24
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11204 S. Western Avenue

Class Action Grievance: The CTA has established a separate,

abnormal disciplinary (punishment) guidelines regarding the Second
Chance "Apprentice" Program (SCP). They are punished with
greater severity than all the other CTA union workers.

The SCP workers are not being punished according to 3 of the 7

Tests for Just Cause: Equal treatment, progressive discipline, and
regard of past practice. The SCP abnormal guidelines are not
recognized in Attachment O of the Collective Bargaining Agreement
between the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) and the CTA.

The CTA must immediately cease using the abnormal disciplinary

guidelines, make whole those affected by it, offer reemployment to
those who were terminated in excess of the normal CTA Corrective
Action Guidelines, make the workers whole in lost wages and not
discriminate for opportunities in Full Time Permanent jobs. Attached
copies of the normal and abnormal Corrective Action Guidelines.
Summary of disparate treatment when comparing
the abnormal Corrective Action Guidelines for
Second Chance Program workers versus the
normal Corrective Action Guidelines for all other
bargained for CTA employees.
 _., MEMORANDUM
To: Vehicle Maintenance VP, GMs, Admin Managers, and Senior Managers
From: Kasandra Henderson, Coordinator —- Career Development & Programs
Date: February 11, 2015
Re: CAG Clarifications Specific to the Second Chance Program-Revised

This memo is to provide clarification to the CAGs for Second Chance participants specifically.
The following is a table that outlines the occurrences that could lead to an apprentice being
recommended for discharge.

Written Warning
. Final Written Warning
Absenteeism*
.

3 (cumulative)
3 ~~ Recommendation for Discharge

1° = Written Warning
nd . .

Final Written Warning

.

Procedural*
‘

3 (cumulative) 2
3 — Recommendation for Discharge
st
Behavioral 1 1 Recommendation for Discharge
$ 7

AWOL ** 1 Recommendation for Discharge

1 ~~ Final Written Warning

Safety 2 (cumulative) 24 Recommendation for Discharge

“Absenteeism, safety, and procedural violations are tallied cumulatively (i.e. one tardy + one unexcused absence +
one procedural violation — discharge recommendation)

** Apprentices who have gone AWOL should be issued a 5-day notice by their manager.

* Safety violations may be considered for accelerated discipline where warranted by the circumstances. See CAG
booklet for more information on specific violations that may warrant accelerated discipline.

MEMORANDUM Re: CAG Clarifications Specific to the Second Chance Program-Revised 2/11/15
-