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CalPERS to add 86 new “mission critical” positions (Sacramento Bee)
9:44 AM - December 20, 2012
CalPERS, the state’s massive public pension system, is back in
hiring mode, big time.
The fund’s board of administration moved Wednesday to create 86
new positions ASAP.
If all of the new jobs are filled – and that’s not a given – the
new hires would add $16.3 million to CalPERS’ $357.6 million
administrative budget and bring its total headcount to just shy
of 2,600 employees.
In the time it took to read this, some of you have done the math:
The new hires would cost nearly $190,000 each. So why might the
state have trouble hiring?
Turning frustration into positive action
10:39 AM - December 5, 2012
Darlene Estey first got active in Local 1000 because she was
mad–at her union.
“I used to be a fee payer, and I was angry about a dues increase
so I became a member and got active,” said Estey, a Bargaining
Unit 1 senior compliance representative with the Franchise Tax
Board. “Once I saw how the union worked to help people, I just
got more and more involved.”
2013 Mileage Reimbursement Rate
1:13 PM - December 19, 2012
On November 30, 2012, the Department of Human Resources (CalHR)
Benefits Division released the following information:
Effective January 1, 2013, the personal vehicle mileage
reimbursement rate for all State employees will be 56.5 cents per
mile. The relocation/moving mileage reimbursement rate for all
current State employees and New-Hires to State service will now
be 24 cents per mile.
Election 2012
9:25 AM - November 7, 2012
Volunteers made the difference
Members & staff defeated billionaire blitz
Local 1000’s success at the polls on Nov. 6 came down to one
thing: Volunteers.
“Without our member and staff volunteers we would not have
succeeded in so many races,” said Local 1000 President Yvonne R.
Walker. “We were up against billionaires, corporate special
interests and anonymous contributors who wanted to buy this
election. We won because we have something they will never have:
an army of committed volunteers.”
Unit 1 and 4 workers stand together against outrageous workloads
1:15 PM - October 26, 2012
At 10 a.m. on October 10, hundreds of Unit 1 and Unit 4 members
in EDD unemployment branches statewide silently stopped working,
stood up together and waved their pendants, banners and flags
which read CAUTION: EDD Workloads out of control (see image to
right).
Disability Determination Services Division (DDSD) Update
11:10 AM - October 12, 2012
Local 1000 Joint Labor Management Committee (JLMC) members from
the DDSD of the California Department of Social Services met on
August 30, 2012 to review the results of the recent Case Receipt
survey. Communication has become a challenge due to DDSD’s
reconfiguration of email addresses. The JLMC is awaiting
the state’s response for the next meeting - leaders are
prepared with an agenda and the team has been identified.
‘I Am Unit 1′
10:32 AM - October 10, 2012
Local 1000 provides skilled, professional representation for the
members of Bargaining Unit 1. Watch the video below as Local 1000
members speak about why it’s important for all state workers to
have a union that has their back.
SBAC and Bargaining Unit Update
12:48 PM - October 10, 2012
Hundreds of bargaining unit member leaders recently met on
October 6-7 in San Diego to discuss critical campaigns for Local
1000. Representatives came from all areas of California to
discuss the importance of the November election and make over
3,400 calls to urge a NO vote on Proposition 32.
We heard from speakers from our coalition partners such as the
League of Women Voters and the Center on Policy Initiatives
regarding the importance of partnering to defeat anti worker
propositions and campaigns.
Update: Reclassification
9:45 AM - October 3, 2012
The DMV reclassification team is on schedule to finish their work
in Spring 2013.
Next steps of the reclassification effort were discussed during a
meeting held with the Local 1000 reclassification team, DMV
management and the California Department of Human Resources
(CalHR) on August 17. Currently, CalHR is reviewing the Unit 1
and Unit 4 job classification changes as proposed by the Local
1000 DMV reclassification team and DMV.
Uniform “Expectations Memo” Circulated after Local 1000 push-back
8:30 AM - October 3, 2012
65 memos reduced to one, unfair expectations dropped
On July 11, 2012, an updated and standardized “expectations memo”
was distributed by DMV to statewide offices that included many of
the suggestions brought forth by the Local 1000 DMV team.