Department of Rehabilitation (DOR)... The California Department of Rehabilitation provides services and advocacy resulting in employment, independent living and equality for individuals with disabilities. Specifically our educators work with newly blinded adults at the Orientation Center for the Blind in Albany.
Your right to representation when brought before management on possible disciplinary charges
Describes your right to have union information posted and distributed at your worksite
Defines right to compensated time off for representational purposes
Defines your right to not be discriminated against at work
Defines your right not to be subjected to sexual harassment
There are rules mandating timely submissions of grievances and timely responses by management. Failure to abide by these time limits by the union means that the grievance has been dropped. Management's failure to meet these deadlines moves the grievances to the next level.
If wages and benefits are the guts of the Local 1000 contract, the grievance procedure is its heart. "It is our shield against the arbitrary authority of the boss," says Marc Bautista, Vice-President for Organizing and Representation. "It guarantees due process. It guards against discrimination."
Defines your rights to paid time off
Describes your right to be absent from work--with pay--for medical reasons
Defines your right to paid time off to grieve a loved one
Define your right to parental and adoption leave
Defines your right to transfer leave credits
Defines your right to paid time off to mentor a child or youth
Defines your right to time off to attend family-related activities and family crisis situations
State Disability Insurance (SDI) is for qualified employees who suffer a non-work related injury or illness
Defines your right to safe and hazard-free working conditions
Defines wage increases, bonuses, timely payment of wages, differentials for working nights, utilizing bilingual skills, out-of-state assignments and other pay issues
Defines your right to view, copy and know the location of personnel and supervisory files
Defines your right to transfer to help resolve work and family issues
Describes the regular workweek and work shift, and your right to overtime pay for working more than 40 hours in a regular workweek
Defines the right to time off for victims of domestic violence
The truth about our pensionsMembers help their communitiesScholarships for members and their childrenKnow Your Rights: Contract protectionsupdate_01_27_10.pdf...
More than 800 Local 1000 members, including about 50 Unit 1 members, have received a 30-day reprieve from layoff. The delay comes after an alert prison teacher discovered that the state was involved in a possible mail fraud scheme.
More than 800 Local 1000 members have received a 30-day reprieve from being laid-off. The delay comes after an alert prison teacher discovered that the state was involved in a possible mail fraud scheme.
Three ballot initiatives are being circulated in a misleading effort to reduce the retirement security of all state employees hired in the future. In addition, Gov. Schwarzenegger is supporting a separate plan to scale back benefits, for future state employees, to 1999 levels.
The governor has once again released a state budget that will prove difficult for state workers. Budget negotiations between the Legislature and the governor will be another long and arduous process.
Your union contract contains hundreds of provisions designed to protect your rights, including state time off for representational purposes, and guarantees that you and your steward will not be discriminated against or harassed for exercising rights guaranteed by our contract.
Channel 1000 LIVE featured Walker in a town hall-style meeting answering member questions on furloughs, the budget, grievances, court actions and politics.
The Committee of Interns & Residents (CIR) is working with SEIU to develop Help Haiti, a relief initiative to direct donations from our members, our locals and the general public to assist the three million Haitians affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Last year when the governor announced his budget he talked about furloughs and those furloughs went into effect right away. This year the governor has said he is cutting my pay by 5%, increasing my PERS contribution by 5% and then possibly another 5% pay cut if he doesn't get money from the federal government. Are these pay cuts effective immediately as well?
Gov's paycut proposal illegalLawsuits challenge furloughs for General Fund workersFrequently asked member questionsChannel 1000 LIVEupdate_01_20_10.pdf...
This week's top issues members are asking the Local 1000 Resource Center.
The governor's plan to cut state worker salaries by 5 percent is illegal if unilaterally implemented and Local 1000 will sue if he tries to push it through, SEIU Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker said.
To kick off the 2010 legislative session, Local 1000 is rolling out its very own legislative update. The update will be published frequently during the 2010 legislative session to bring the latest legislative updates to our members.
Join with your fellow SEIU brothers and sisters by pledging one or more actions before the health care vote--you'll receive a notification when the clock starts on 72 hours. The top five SEIU Locals will be recognized for having the most pledged actions.
Private prisons are not the bargain supporters say they are.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to replace furloughs with a pay cut and an increase in mandatory pension contributions amount to an illegal permanent 10 percent pay cut.
Agreeing with Local 1000's attorneys, a judge determined that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted illegally by placing tens of thousands of state employees on unpaid furloughs. Schwarzenegger's use of furloughs was an "abuse of discretion" that ignored legal restrictions on furloughs, interfered with operations of state agencies, and achieved questionable savings, stated Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch in a Dec. 31 ruling.
Furloughs ruled illegalWalker calls for performance-based budgetingKnow Your Rights: Governor's proposed pay cut must be bargainedChannel 1000 LIVE: Jan. 25update_01_13_10.pdf...
The governor's proposed 2010-11 budget includes a 10 percent reduction in state employee compensation. Our Local 1000 contract, California Government Code, California state law (the Dills Act), the state constitution, and the United States Constitution all preclude a unilateral pay cut of union-represented employees.
Rank-and-file workers take home a median salary less than $60,000 a year.
This page contains information extracted from published sources as well as from the bargaining process. The Layoff Manual, the SROA Manual and Article 16 of our Contract are important references. Links are found at the bottom of this page.
"When it comes to the furlough of state employees whose jobs are paid for by federal funds, California Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled state officials have 'abused their discretion' and that 'such a policy is arbitrary, capricious and unlawful.' I could not agree more.
Six challenges seek to overturn furlough pay cut, restore lost wages
After months of working with the State Personnel Board (SPB), Local 1000 has won a major battle to stop the systematic abuse of members at the California Department of Education (CDE).
In a Nov. 30 letter, SPB set forth a series of guidelines intended to end outsourcing abuses that allowed CDE to contract out Unit 21 jobs.
Are furloughs still in effect?Yes. The judge's ruling requires additional steps before it becomes final, a process that could take weeks or much longer should...
This excel spreadsheet contains the seniority scores of surplus employees, organized by county, accurate as of the end of November 2009. This list should also be available at Personnel Offices.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted illegally by placing tens of thousands of state employees on unpaid furloughs, a Superior Court judge ruled Thursday on Local 1000's lawsuit to overturn the furlough scheme.
