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Tech A:
Is the rumor true that if you want to go to Clinton you have to work the old exelon plants also?  Sounds great for the ex numanco techs who get another plant added on their "core group," but it doesnt sound right for the Bartlett returnees who don't want to stay in Illinois for the winter.  Isn't Clinton the highest paid outage plant that Bartlett has?

DJ@Retired:
Everyone, I do believe this rumor to be true. Bartlett has to do this to get the North plants staffed. So they sort of black mail you into working there hard to staff plants. The RP tech's at Clinton do not agree with this policy but understand why it’s being done. Funny if they would treat you guys better they wouldn’t have to hold hostage to work thier. But I can't Blame Bartlett. It’s Business 101.  We are losing some good techs because of it. Please Email me for further info or help with this problem. No promises but as always, I'll try and help.

Joe Ferguson:
Nobody is being held hostage.  It's an economic strategy that benefits Bartlett, the technicians, and Exelon.  There is and should be an incentive for the tech's to work the circuit.  If you have noticed, Exelon plans their refueling outages strategically close to one another.  The reason they do that is to be able to take advantage of craft resources (including HP's) and to take the units off-line during non-peak periods (spring and fall).  If we are losing "good tech's" because they don't want to work the string, that a decision they make.  The sun is still gonna come up and somebody else will make their $money$.  It ain't personal - it's business and it ain't for everyone.

DJ@Retired:
Hostage might not been the best word. But I would want to work where I chose. Not where a company wants me to go. Funny we don't have problem's getting tech's to come to our plant until they started forcing them to go north.

illegalsmile:

--- Quote from: DJ@Clinton on Nov 09, 2007, 11:01 ---Hostage might not been the best word. But I would want to work where I chose. Not where a company wants me to go. Funny we don't have problem's getting tech's to come to our plant until they started forcing them to go north.

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if you have the right to work where you chose, doesn't Bartlett have the right to hire the people they chose? a lot of us have made statements that The Company only cares about how much money we can make them. But how many of us would take a job for Bartlett if another company was paying $3/hr more an hour up the road. This Exelon Package Deal just sounds like good business planning to me.

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