Communication key to labor, management relations Published Feb. 12, 2010 By Staff Reports ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- The progress made to improve labor and management relations in the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center is due, in large part, to the close involvement of top leaders on both sides of the aisle. Capt. Nicholas Moore, a member of the labor-management relations 'connector' team, said WR-ALC Commander Maj. Gen. Polly A. Peyer and American Federation of Government Employees Local 987 President Tom Scott, are working closely together to improve labor and management relations here. "We are seeing significant signs of improvement and it's due to those at the top on both sides," Moore said. "It's the hands-on involvement of leaders like Maj. Gen Peyer and Mr. Tom Scott which will ultimately make this (P3I) initiative successful," added Moore. "When the Center's senior-most leaders make labor and management relations a priority and personally follow up on its progress, everyone realizes its importance and (the) need to focus on making it better." The connector team is already doing its part to improve labor and management relations. The team first developed a Foster Leadership In People, or FLIP, coin to recognize personnel who've made individual efforts to improve labor and management relations here. It is now working to develop labor-management partnership councils at the group and squadron levels to encourage better communication and curriculum for a class where employees and managers would work together to improve 'soft people skills.' All these efforts are aimed at easing some of the most common causes of friction between labor and management including poor communication, and lack of recognition, respect and trust. Moore said the team is currently introducing the FLIP coin, and council and class concepts, to the 402nd Aircraft Maintenance Group. He added, the team hopes by summer to begin deploying those things across the Center.