Unit 4

Bargaining Unit 4 is made up of Office and Allied Workers.
Includes program assistants, program/tax technicians, key data operators, word processing technicians, and stock clerks.  This unit also represents toll collectors at eight bridges across the state.

Larry Perkins,  Chair	Francisca Pass, Vice Chair
John Krumm	Robert Kersch, Alt Vice Chair
Janet Walters	Carolyn Daniels

Comprising approximately 28,000 employees who provide critical support to all state agencies and departments, Unit 4 is the second largest of the nine bargaining units represented by Local 1000. Unit 4 consists of the office and allied classifications, including office assistants and technicians, legal secretaries and senior legal typists, key data operators and word processing technicians, motor vehicle technicians and field representatives, program technicians, case record technicians, library technical assistants and other classifications that fall under general clerical categories.



UNIT 4 CAMPAIGNS

CDCR member action delivers reclass and raise for Case Records Technicians
Nearly 1,000 workers from case records offices in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation approved a reclassification that recognizes the complexity of their work and provides pay raises from 3.2 to 15.5 percent, and a streamlined promotional process. 

“We won because so many workers were willing to get active by picketing, leafleting, signing petitions, writing letters, and calling elected officials,” said Marc Bautista, Local 1000 vice president for organizing and representation.

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DMV workers rally statewide for reclassification
In a preview of things to come, nearly 1,000 Department of Motor Vehicle workers in offices up and down the state participated in worksite actions in support of reclassification negotiations. More than 300 Local 1000 members picketed and rallied at DMV headquarters, while hundreds more at six of the nine call centers statewide took a five-minute solidarity break at 10:00 a.m., standing up in their offices.

“This is the kind of member action we’ll need to prevail in the upcoming contract battle,” said Yvonne Walker, Local 1000 vice president for bargaining. “We need to show state officials, legislators, and the governor that we are united, we are fearless, and we are ready to act.”

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Program Technician Update #7 - May 2008Meeting Update

The joint Union-State focus groups to study the Program technician classification series moved one step closer after your PT Committee met with DPA and representatives from DOJ, EDD, and SCIF on April 28th and May 5th in PT JLMC meetings.
As we reported in the last PT update, the focus groups are Q&A sessions in a panel format conducted by a lead facilitator and assistant facilitator.

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Judicial Assistant Update #3(Legal Secretaries & Senior Legal Typists at PUC, OAH, AND CUIAB)

State Rejects New Judicial Assistant Classification

Your Judicial Assistant committee met with DPA and their representatives from PUC, the OAH/DGS and the CUIAB on March 13th to receive the State's response to our proposal for a new Judicial Assistant classification specification. The State rejected our proposal for the Judicial Assistant classification.

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Library Technical Assistant Update #3
Update
On March 27th- after the February 6th meeting had to be rescheduled because of DPA's last minute cancellation - your LTA Committee came well prepared and ready to discuss your Union's proposal for creating a deep LTA classification with an LTA I, LTA II, and LTA III based on time in classification and/or education experience.

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Out of Class Form



EDD Management declares “We don’t have a workload problem.”
Ignoring out of control workloads at 22 EDD offices across the state and employees suffering from work-related injury and illness, EDD management declared, “We see no need for this committee to exist,” at the October 1 meeting of the Joint Labor Management Committee on DI Workload.

When asked by Local 1000 team members what topics they wanted on the agenda for the next meeting – scheduled for November 5 – management had a one-word response. “Nothing.”

Hundreds of EDD employees are affected by the workload issue. “Management’s unwillingness to recognize or address the problem is unacceptable,” said Margaret Wilson, DIPR (Santa Barbara) and EDD Task Force member.

In response, Local 1000 team members will return to worksites to encourage participation in an escalating series of worksite actions. “Local 1000 will rally statewide to send EDD the message that working conditions must improve, and that we will not stop until the issue is resolved,” added Small.

For more information on EDD and its campaigns, click here.