Leonard Muzyn's TVARS Blog

Mr. Burleson, Thank you for your response to our proposal. Please reconsider supporting retiree voting for the 7th director before the window on this opportunity closes. Four months have passed since we first informed you of our proposal and asked for your support. Time is now running short. If we let this opportunity pass, retirees will never again get another opportunity like it. The retiree 7th director’s next term begins November 1, 2018. Ideally, the board should begin planning for the election at this Thursday’s TVARS Board meeting in order for a retiree elected 7th director to be in place at that time. Since we informed you of our proposed accountability improvement plan in November, we have received positive feedback from several TVARA officers and many TVA retirees. We recently attended a TVARA event where support was strongly expressed for our plan, especially retiree voting for the 7th director. It is very clear to us that retirees want the opportunity to elect the ret...

DeWitt Burleson, TVARA Valley Wide President TVARA Board Directors TVARA Chapter Officers Dear Mr. Burleson, Directors, and Chapter Officers, I am very grateful for the support many of you have expressed for Sam’s, Jim’s and my proposed TVARS 2018 Accountability Improvement Plan (AIP). The cornerstone of this plan is to have the 7 th director elected by the entire retiree population later this year. Now there are zero directors elected by the retirees. If we act quickly, we can get one this year. I believe we can all agree this has wide support among retirees. Some have suggested additional improvements, but I ask that we focus now on getting this one huge improvement accomplished. This is something very easy to implement in a timely fashion. All we need is one more vote on the TVARS Board. I am sure the current 7 th director, retiree Allen Stokes, would vote for this if the TVARA leadership united together and clearly communicated to him the wide support for it among r...

The Sixth Circuit has issued their opinion against TVA employees and retirees by a 2-1 vote. See the opinion here .