Let me start by saying, I want to wish you all working the line today a Happy Fathers Day!
With that being said as I sit here reading the DAR for the day, it's sad to read about all the overtime and order overs that have occurred today. We all have a whole calendar year to plan for these Holidays and special days. At some point we have to stop blaming everything on our department.
Just a couple of days ago, I wrote about trying to get the department to go back to the way it was, as far as time worked goes. But will it really make a difference, to those staff members who care less about their partners?
We have all been the new guy working weekends, first watch and all the major holidays.
Have a Safe 8
(just my two cents)
PROTECTED ACTIVITY The state and the union shall not impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to discriminate against employees, or otherwise to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees because of their exercise of rights guaranteed by the Ralph C. Dills ACT MOU 5.03 section A
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
CCPOA MOU update
SEIU recently bargained with the state for a round of raises that changed the negotiating arena, and now CCPOA has a chance to use that as a way of getting more BU6 proposals passed than was initially anticipated.
Thanks to last year’s passage of Proposition 30, California is experiencing a surplus budget year. However, due to the nature of Prop 30, that money is earmarked for schools, water and other projects—and that means a tough time for California state labor.
As of April, CCPOA has been in constant negotiations with the state over the more than 250 sections of the current MOU. Through sometimes-weekly meetings,
we have already reached around 35 tentative agreements with the state. This kind of bargaining is what CCPOA exists to do, and is also the kind of representation for which our members pay their dues.
The process is not slap-dash in the least, and requires hours upon hours of bargaining time spent on the phone, negotiating with labor representatives from both CDCR and the California Department of Human Resources and your legal and labor representation.
The current MOU is scheduled to expire on July 2. However, should problems arise and a new MOU is not fully reached by that time, the current agreement will roll over as "evergreen" until a full memorandum can be reached.
CCPOA is moving slowly but very surely through the bargaining process. Our members receive a superb voice through their union, and that diligence, acuity and professionalism is what has provided BU6 members with some of the best benefits in the state.
(Read the full story on the members website)
Written by Max McKee, Staff Writer
(Thank you CCPOA for the update, the Riders on this blog. were asking for updates. While this is not much, I understand that we can't play our hand to much on an open forum.
I think the main two things I would personally like to see negotiated is take away the 7k work period and go to week to week. I think the State would never change it's stance on calling sick, HCT and vacation as time not worked. While I think we would most like to see a nice pay raise, at a minimum I would like to see a large increase in uniform allowance! We should be able to purchase at least five uniforms a year and a pair of boots. Our current allowance you would be lucky to buy two cheap jumpsuits. ) Just my thoughts......
Another Dumb Inmate Lawsuit
Andres Martinez had to wait two years to find out how Mathilde Madden’s racy novel The Silver Crown ended. That’s because the novel was taken from him by guards at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, where Martinez is incarcerated, after they judged the book to be pornographic and thus forbidden under prison rules. Now, Martinez can finally find out whether Iris the werewolf hunter can find love with her lycanthrope lover, because he has just won a two-year legal battle to read werewolf erotica in prison.
A San Francisco appeals court has ruled that The Silver Crown, while “perhaps less than Shakespeare,” does not rise to the level of of pornography and, in fact, possesses “serious literary value” and thus cannot be banned under current rules, which bans books with sexual content. In the 1973 case of Miller v California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a work with literary, political or scientific value cannot be labeled as “obscene.” By outlawing all publications that describe sex, regardless of literary value, Pelican Bay’s rules violated that standard.
California banned pornographic magazines from prisons in 2002, on the grounds that inmates were using them to create a hostile work environment for female guards. But a court ruled that books that contain sex scenes are exempt from such restrictions. In their 30-page decision, the court noted that in Martinez’s tale of interspecies love, “the sex appears to be between consenting adults. No minors are involved. No bestiality is portrayed
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/06/13/california-prisoner-fights-for-his-right-to-read-werewolf-erotica/#ixzz2WD2DBRNv
A San Francisco appeals court has ruled that The Silver Crown, while “perhaps less than Shakespeare,” does not rise to the level of of pornography and, in fact, possesses “serious literary value” and thus cannot be banned under current rules, which bans books with sexual content. In the 1973 case of Miller v California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a work with literary, political or scientific value cannot be labeled as “obscene.” By outlawing all publications that describe sex, regardless of literary value, Pelican Bay’s rules violated that standard.
California banned pornographic magazines from prisons in 2002, on the grounds that inmates were using them to create a hostile work environment for female guards. But a court ruled that books that contain sex scenes are exempt from such restrictions. In their 30-page decision, the court noted that in Martinez’s tale of interspecies love, “the sex appears to be between consenting adults. No minors are involved. No bestiality is portrayed
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/06/13/california-prisoner-fights-for-his-right-to-read-werewolf-erotica/#ixzz2WD2DBRNv
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Who's going where on the 1 for 1?
(From a Rider on the 1 for 1)
At about 1300 hours, I was contacted by Joileen from CCPOA headquarters for verification and notification that I was successfully paired with another officer from CCI.
She also informed me that CCPOA had completed the pairing and notifications were being made no later than today.
Seniority was utilized for pairing from the start. She stated that a report date was anticipated by August 1. She also stated that final approval was ultimately in CDCR's court.
At about 1300 hours, I was contacted by Joileen from CCPOA headquarters for verification and notification that I was successfully paired with another officer from CCI.
She also informed me that CCPOA had completed the pairing and notifications were being made no later than today.
Seniority was utilized for pairing from the start. She stated that a report date was anticipated by August 1. She also stated that final approval was ultimately in CDCR's court.
I'm currently at CVSP and submitted a 1 for 1 to: CCI, CIM, and CRC.
(Did you get a 1 for 1? Riders lets here where your going)
(Did you get a 1 for 1? Riders lets here where your going)
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
SEIU first to get a contract?
The state's largest public employees union says it bargained a new contract with Gov. Jerry Brown that includes an across-the-board pay raise of 4.5 percent over 3 years.
The contract, which must be ratified by voting members of the 95,000-employee of SEIU Local 1000, provides either a 2 percent raise July 1, 2014 and a 2.5 percent raise a year later if the state "achieves certain revenue targets," according to an early-morning union email announcing the deal.
If the state misses the revenue targets, the entire 4.5 percent increase would be effective July 1, 2015.
The announcement, emailed this morning around 5 a.m., doesn't detail the revenue thresholds for the pay increases. A spokeswoman for Brown's Department of Human Resources could not be immediately reached for comment.
The agreement falls short of the pay increases that local negotiators wanted: an across-the-board $2,500 bonus this year for all 95,000 state employees covered by Local 1000, followed by a 7 percent salary increase in 2014 and 9 percent boost the following year.
After talks stalled last week, Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker said "the fight is on" over money
The contract, which must be ratified by voting members of the 95,000-employee of SEIU Local 1000, provides either a 2 percent raise July 1, 2014 and a 2.5 percent raise a year later if the state "achieves certain revenue targets," according to an early-morning union email announcing the deal.
If the state misses the revenue targets, the entire 4.5 percent increase would be effective July 1, 2015.
The announcement, emailed this morning around 5 a.m., doesn't detail the revenue thresholds for the pay increases. A spokeswoman for Brown's Department of Human Resources could not be immediately reached for comment.
The agreement falls short of the pay increases that local negotiators wanted: an across-the-board $2,500 bonus this year for all 95,000 state employees covered by Local 1000, followed by a 7 percent salary increase in 2014 and 9 percent boost the following year.
After talks stalled last week, Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker said "the fight is on" over money
Monday, June 10, 2013
Union Yes or No
Prison guards in Wisconsin begin voting later this month on who will represent them on workplace issues.
Their decision will likely have an impact on a lawsuit involving the two labor organizations that want to represent them.
Wisconsin Department of Corrections security and public safety employees begin voting June 28 on whether to reorganize under their former union, the Wisconsin State Employees Union, or the organization created by the union's former local officers, the Wisconsin Association for Correctional Law Enforcement. Mail balloting will conclude July 18, according to Oshkosh Northwestern Media (http://oshko.sh/19XNAxI ).
About 5,800 prison workers, game wardens and other public safety employees also have the option of continuing without representation. The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission will oversee the vote.
The Wisconsin State Employees Union, also known as WSEU or AFSCME Council 24, represented prison guards for about 80 years until it was decertified as a union after the state Legislature's passage of Act 10, the 2011 labor law that prohibited nearly all collective bargaining and banned automatic dues collections.
WSEU Executive Director Marty Beil said WACLE was created by disgruntled former union leaders.
Read more: http://www.wisn.com/news/wisconsin/wis-prison-guards-to-vote-on-union-representation/-/19335330/20499584/-/ycs6n2/-/index.html#ixzz2VqJkBSnp
Their decision will likely have an impact on a lawsuit involving the two labor organizations that want to represent them.
Wisconsin Department of Corrections security and public safety employees begin voting June 28 on whether to reorganize under their former union, the Wisconsin State Employees Union, or the organization created by the union's former local officers, the Wisconsin Association for Correctional Law Enforcement. Mail balloting will conclude July 18, according to Oshkosh Northwestern Media (http://oshko.sh/19XNAxI ).
About 5,800 prison workers, game wardens and other public safety employees also have the option of continuing without representation. The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission will oversee the vote.
The Wisconsin State Employees Union, also known as WSEU or AFSCME Council 24, represented prison guards for about 80 years until it was decertified as a union after the state Legislature's passage of Act 10, the 2011 labor law that prohibited nearly all collective bargaining and banned automatic dues collections.
WSEU Executive Director Marty Beil said WACLE was created by disgruntled former union leaders.
Read more: http://www.wisn.com/news/wisconsin/wis-prison-guards-to-vote-on-union-representation/-/19335330/20499584/-/ycs6n2/-/index.html#ixzz2VqJkBSnp
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