Freight grievance hearings are held on the following dates:
(NOTE: All dates fall on Tuesday)

January 22
February 19
March 18
April 15
May 20
June 17
July 15
August 19
September 16
October 21
November 18
December 16

If freight grievances are not settled in the above, they will go to Joint Area Committee that meets in Chicago. They meet 4 times a year: January 15 & 16, March 4 & 5, May 13 & 14, July 8 & 9, September 16 & 17, and November 4 & 5.

State of Illinois 4 A grievance hearings held at Joint Council 65 at 9:00AM:

January 24
March 27
May 22
July 24
September 25
November 20

These hearings are for members covered under the IDOT Maintenance and Pro Tech agreements. If a grievance is not resolved under steps 1 through 3, it then goes to a 4A hearing to be settled. If it is not settled there, it can go to arbitration.

Duties of a steward

"The steward is authorized to handle first step business and any other such business that may delegated to him from time to time by the Officers of Local 916.

In other words, he can leave his work station to be there first-hand to represent any member being called in, or leave his station to investigate a grievance.

He is a direct representative of the local and is elected and thereby appointed. Even if there is no steward election, one can be appointed by the principal officer to handle first hand problems occuring on the job site."