NEWS

           Business Representatives Sergenti and Mullen will be holding a physical Chief Steward's meeting on May 19th.
  will be addressing current issues within the nuclear division with the main topic being travel and how it has been impacted
  by the NRC 82-12 rules.
                
                 Hopefully in June we will start discussion with the company on how the new NRC work hour rules that go
  into effect in 2009 will affect our members work hours not only for outage times but non-outage as well. This will
 definitely impact our travel agreement too. At these meetings we will negotiating our travel out east for the fall outages
 as set forth in the agreement we signed for travel to Clinton in January.

                 Current Issues being addressed with the company:

                 1- Zion Decommissioning

                 2- Clerical Discussion per the M.O.A.

                 3- C.B.A. separation

                 4- Work hour rules - NRC 82-12 rules

                 5- Reactor Services Implemented Agreement

                   UPCOMING MEETINGS WITH THE COMPANY

                             Meet & Greet Glen Chick - May 8th

                             Grievance Resolution  - May 9
                           
                             Nuclear Clerical discussions - May 9

                             Grievance Resolution - May 16

                             Dresden & Braidwood Step 2 Grievances - May 20

                             Grievance Resolution - May 22

                             Operating/Labor Management Mtg. - May 30