President

Presidents Article for Jan. 2025

First and foremost, I would like to thank John Crader for the work he put into updating the website and making it much easier to navigate. As President, I will try to post every month.

One of the things that we need to get better at in SC is finding and training new advocates. Last year, the NBA’s office was having to send in union reps from Georgia to help offices that didn’t have stewards. I can say that it looks like we have been doing well in that area. We now have some young stewards that have been trained and are stepping up and going to other offices to represent carriers that need top notch representation.

While we are getting stronger as a state, we still have a lot of work to do. Our NBA (Eddie Davidson) has two upcoming weeklong training classes for both beginners and for experienced stewards that want to learn how to do Formal A’s. If anyone is interested in the training, please contact me. I know that my Branch will be sending stewards to both training classes.

By now, everyone should have received a ballot to vote on the tentative agreement. If you have not, you need to call the ballot committee at (202) 393-0614. The cutoff date for returning ballots has been extended to January 27th. No matter which way you plan to vote, just make sure you vote.

We also have the SC state convention coming up April 18-19 with stewards training on Thurs April 17th. We are hoping for a good turnout and look forward to seeing everyone there.

Wayne Harlow

864-363-3559