APS-wide bargaining is back on - represent yourself
APS-wide bargaining is back on as of today. This is not a pro-union plug. I was there last year as a non-union rep, I'm back there again as a non-union rep. It will be a poop-show. It is my firm belief that self-nominating as individual self-representing bargaining reps is the best thing us non-union public servants can do at this point to have any influence on this process. Anyone can nominate to represent themselves. It's free. You don't have to ask permission. Your manager can't say no. You get all the information and all context directly from the source, not through the APSC filter. There can be no cap on the numbers of individual number of reps. (#no_cap - pun intended). Those are facts. It takes numbers, but if a thousand of non-union reps turn up at every paid-time business hours meeting, the resulting cost to productivity will have to be noticed. The delays in bargaining will have a real cost. Smoke bomb.