Wage hearing lets workers give feedback Published March 6, 2009 By Ed Drohan 78th Air Base Wing Public Affairs ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Robins' blue-collar employees have an opportunity to comment about the upcoming Federal Wage System wage survey. A public hearing about the survey - particularly the area, industries and jobs to be surveyed - will be held March 18 at 9:30 a.m. in the Museum of Aviation Scott Theater. Employees can request administrative leave to attend the hearing. To comment, employees must provide written questions, recommendations and supporting documentation before or at the hearing. Before the hearing, these may be dropped off at Directorate of Personnel Customer Service in Bldg. 376 or e-mailed to Cantrell Hollingsworth at cantrell. hollingsworth@robins.af.mil. At the hearing, they will be collected at the door. The questions, recommendations and supporting documentation will be read aloud during the hearing to ensure their meaning is understood. At the conclusion of the hearing, the information will be forwarded to the Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Management Service for answers. The survey, which will start in early June, is used to set pay rates for Federal Wage System workers at Robins and other federal agencies in the local wage area. Several data collection teams will visit private businesses around Middle Georgia to determine salaries paid for work that is similar to that done by wage grade employees in the area, according to Dianne Gauthier, acting chief of Robins' workforce development division. The teams will include representatives from the DOD Civilian Personnel Management Service, Robins' Directorate of Personnel, and the local chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees, she said. Grades and titles of some of the jobs that will be used in the survey include 2-Material Handler, 5-Warehouse Worker, 9-Carpenter, 10-Electrician, 10-Machinist and 11-Electronics Mechanic. The survey area will include Bibb, Houston, Jones, Laurens, Twiggs and Wilkinson counties, but will also be applicable to federal wage grade employees in the following counties: Baldwin, Bleckley, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Lamar, Macon, Monroe, Montgomery, Peach, Pulaski, Putnam, Telfair, Treutlen, Upson, Washington, Wheeler and Wilcox.