CBA Reflective Essay

I have received your stated grievance regarding the separation of your TECOLE commission from the City of Waco. Although there are many debatable accounts stated with in your document, I will only address a few.

First, you have acknowledged and completed step one of the grievance procedure with in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) by addressing your Supervisor in writing to seek to resolve the dispute before moving on to step two. Although you have followed the CBA regarding step one, I do not believe you have a valid grievance due to requirements of step two.

Step two states “ A member who is aggrieved must file a grievance with the Association Grievance Committee within fifteen (15) calendar days of the date upon which the member knew of or should have known of the facts or events given rise to the grievance,”… “The Association Grievance Committee shall forward a copy of notice of receipt of the grievance to the Fire Chief within five (5) calendar days of receipt of the grievance.” (Emphasis mine) As you acknowledged in your written

You also stated on/about 6/27/2016 during a meeting with Chief of the Department that you would remain assigned as a Lt. within the Prevention Division of the Fire Marshal’s Office and that assigned tasks did not consist of function associated with being a peace officer. Both of these statements are accurate and have been implemented. Your assignments and functions are completely within the scope of your job description and are without, as you have stated, “retaliation in the form of an adverse employment action”. You have provided no evidence to the fact that your current assignments are in retaliation nor have you been treated differently than any other member of the Marshal’s Office with respects to what you are expected to do daily. You have been given the upmost respect and time to complete