USTPA / FOP TEXAS LODGE 50
Jason Frederickson · President
Chad Harmon · Vice President
Your rights. Your voice. Our responsibility.
You serve a demanding mission. You also deserve time for family, rest, and life outside work. We challenged the blanket two-person leave limit and management stopped applying it. Next, we’ll pursue better schedules and less mandatory overtime while maintaining mission coverage.
WORK THAT MATTERS TO MEMBERS
Work during Jason Frederickson’s presidency. Completed steps and work still underway are described separately below.
We challenged the blanket two-person leave limit using contract language and filed grievances. Management stopped applying the cap. Leave requests are now considered against mission requirements.
That’s time with family, an appointment, or a needed day off. We can’t promise every approval, but members deserve proper consideration.
We’ve also helped members raise leave and FMLA concerns using the contract and applicable protections.
Our first electronic vote supported electronic leave requests. Management confirmed by email that electronic submissions would be recognized as equivalent.
We introduced electronic voting and held electronic meetings because members wanted more ways to participate.
We pursued reopening the 2008 CBA. The Lodge’s record documents management’s acknowledgment and request for proposed ground rules. Negotiating an updated agreement remains work ahead.
We’ve worked to make representation contacts and governing documents easier to find, organize Lodge records, and clarify officer responsibilities so issues and deadlines receive follow-through.
Membership raffles, an end-of-year banquet, and a Member of the Year award give us more ways to come together and recognize members.
We built a Lodge website, established an official logo, and added a merchandise store—alongside electronic participation and better digital records.
Audit underway: An audit is in progress; it is not yet complete.
Investing planned: Investing Lodge funds is a planned next step. No completed investment or return is being claimed.
OUR FOUR-PILLAR PLAN
Better schedules. Better retention. Better retirement. A better work environment. These are the goals we will pursue through bargaining and the other approval processes each proposal requires.
Pursue mixed 12/8-hour schedules and four 10-hour days to give members more days off and reduce mandatory overtime. Align schedules and staffing with the actual workload while maintaining coverage and keeping existing positions.
Make this a place officers want to stay: schedules that support life outside work, a stronger long-term retirement outlook, and better working conditions.
Pursue enhanced federal law-enforcement retirement coverage, commonly called 6(c), subject to eligibility and required approvals.
Evaluate a funding proposal using scheduling savings and funds currently spent on retention pay. Jason would support exchanging retention pay only if enhanced retirement coverage were formally approved and secured.
This is a proposal to pursue. It is not a guarantee of coverage or of future retention-pay decisions.
Pursue on-duty fitness time to support officer health and readiness.
Seek an authorized process for qualified officers to bring personally owned firearms onto BEP property when arriving for or leaving work. The proposal requires review of applicable law and site policy; it does not assert an existing on-site carry right under LEOSA.
Bring member priorities into contract negotiations, explain what remains unresolved, and report on decisions and finances while protecting confidential member matters.
THE NEW ERA 50 TEAM
Vote Jason Frederickson for President, Chad Harmon for Vice President, and the New Era 50 candidates below for their respective offices. Every office matters.
Why Jason supports these candidates
“Joel brings leadership experience, addresses problems directly, and helps people get back on track.”
“Adam connects easily with people and pitches in when a job needs doing.”
“Roger brings experience as a former president and a willingness to speak up about procedure and accountability.”
“Members came to Fabian for representation as Secretary. He brings knowledge and a willingness to speak up to management.”
“David brings knowledge of union work and federal policy, and makes his case clearly when challenging management.”
Additional Steward endorsement
Pending
Together we defend. Together we win.