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"Business Transformation" at PG&E is causing nearly unbearable stress for employees in Estimating and Mapping.  Probably the most frustrating part of BT is the pending elimination of AutoCAD as a drafting and design tool.  The new tools, LDPro and TDS Sketch, do NOT replace the functionality of AutoCAD. AutoCAD is an industry standard, it is taught in all types of technical training programs, and has been successfully used at PG&E and many other utilities, other companies and government agencies for years.  Keeping it active will help PG&E hire and retain quality staff. If the company takes AutoCAD away, we will not be able to perform our work in a professional manner.

PG&E Senior Management has been deaf and blind to the voices of employees.  Our union leadership has raised this issue over and over, but management refuses to make a commitment.  While management has the right to mismanage the utility, the employees and our union also have the right to speak up for common sense and be heard.  If Senior Management allows AutoCAD to be removed from estimators and ADE's, our ability to design jobs will be fatally compromised, and our customers both internal and external will suffer the results. 

This petition is not about wages or hours, it is about our professional status.  We are design and engineering professionals, and we demand the proper tools to do the job that we trained for.  Our work is important to our customers, our communities and to the California economy.  We call on PG&E to listen to reason and help us preserve the integrity of the design which supports gas and electric distribution.

DO NOT USE YOUR WORK EMAIL TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PETITION.  Only non-PG&E emails should be used.