Fellow worker Raphael C and many thousands of her co-workers coming under the employment rules and change in structure to DTS received a threatening memo from management dated April 3, 2006. In effect this memo attempts to extort existing Information Technology Services employees to voluntarily give up their schedule B, career service employee status, moving to AT or "exempt" employment status in exchange for a 3 step pay increase. The memo in effect threatens existing career service employees when it states that, "There are two ways that this conversion will take place.

The State of Utah is going fully corporate under a new law (HB109) that creates a new Department of Technology Services (DTS) and changes the status of all new hires to exempt or non-merit so called schedule AT employees. "AT" or "exempt" employees are different than the current "schedule B" or "career service employees" such as  myself in the rights they have to their jobs and in hiring and firing decisions. The "exempt" employee status means that, "works at the will and pleasure of the employing agency and can be released from their appointment at any time without explaination or just cause."

Fellow worker Raphael C and many thousands of her co-workers coming under the rules and management of the new DTS received a threatening memo from management dated April 3, 2006. In effect this memo attempts to extort existing Utah State Information Technology Services employees to voluntarily give up their schedule B, career service employee status, moving to AT or exempt employment status in exchange for a 3 step hourly pay increase. The memo reprinted below in effect threatens existing career service employees when it states that, "There are two ways that this conversion will take place.

http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/hits_2005-06-30.cfm

Downtown Salt Lake City workers are used to small bands of half-asleep anti-war protestors outside the Federal Building, but the sight that greeted the lunchtime crowd Monday was something else. At the corner of 200 South and Main Street, people took turns literally standing on a soapbox and shouting to the wind about the alleged crimes of President Bush while praising long-forgotten Utah labor figures like “Big Bill” Haywood. It was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World, a radical union that once made big marks in Utah, particularly when IWW organizer Joe Hill was executed here. It’s nice to know a few still recall a time when Utah was in the mix of labor activism. About 20 by our count.