CIO Local 2196 History

The ISO Local 2196 was created from an FLRA decision in November 2006. This was after an election was held amongst employees of the then ISO A-76 contract. This election included only the "workers" within IRM. It did not include the CGA employees. NFFE was overwhelmingly approved as our representative and the Local was born.
John M. Chapman accepted the appointment as President from Mr. Bill Dougan, FS Council President. Ms Lydia Gallegos accepted the Vice-Presidents position by Mr. Dougan and our Secretary/Treasurer, Ms Marilyn Peterson, was appointed by myself shortly afterwards. In 2007 a call went out for nominees for an election and all 3 existing officers were elected by acclimation. The ISO Partnership Council was established in 2007 and has met to address issues that affect the workers of the ISO. All representational work was done for the ISO employees only. We are now in 2009 and after the dissolution of the A-76 contract, efforts were made to combine the two workforces together into one CIO. A petition was filed by the FS Council with the FLRA to include CGA employees into the ISO Bargaining Unit and it was approved. So now the ISO Local 2196 is now the CIO Local 2196 representing all workers in the CIO IT organization within the FS. Our Partnership Council is now reflecting this change and will meet to represent all workers within the CIO and amend its work to reflect the change. Representation under the Master Agreement is now for all CIO workers. We have grown from an original 40 members to almost 70 in the last 3 years and look forward to even more as we speak, so sign up, speak up and be heard!