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Veterans Committee
The Local 1000 Veterans Committee is committed to being a strong advocate for our union’s military veterans and their families. Our aim is to support veterans of all areas, branches and components.
The Veterans Committee focus is to have a platform to address veteran’s issues and concerns within our union and our communities.
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Pension attack takes next step
Attorney General releases official summary; signature gathering underway
The deadly 2016 pension-gutting ballot initiative designed to bypass collective bargaining and threaten the retirement security of all public employees has passed another milestone, receiving a official title and summary from California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Titled the “Public Employees. Pension and Retiree Healthcare Benefits. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.” the ballot measure “eliminates constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree healthcare benefits for current public employees.”
First Bargaining Unit 17 JLMC report on Upward Mobility sent to CalHR Director
Bargaining Unit 17’s first Nursing and Upward Mobility Joint Labor Management Committee (JLMC) report was sent to the Director of the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR).
A committee of five representatives from SEIU Local 1000 and five from the State of California met quarterly for the past year to develop the first of two reports to be published prior to contract negotiations. The initial report focuses on two topics: (1) career mobility and (2) clinical supervision.
Click here to view the Nursing and Upward Mobility Joint Labor Management Committee Report.
Members push for upward mobility in Unit 15
JLMCs mark progress at multiple departments
On July 23, the Unit 15 Upward Mobility Team met with the state’s representatives in a Joint Labor Management Committee (JLMC) as part of a continuing dialogue about gaps in the various departments’ upward mobility programs.
Along with Chair Jesse Aranda (DSH), the team is comprised of Garth Underwood (CDCR), Shavone Brown (DGS) and Ellis Washington (EDD), as well as staff from Local 1000’s contract department.
Income Inequality Affects Us All
City task force examines the real economic impact of minimum wage
As the possibility for narrowing the income gap comes closer to reality for low wage workers in Sacramento, Local 1000 members are pushing to keep the needs of the working families top-of-mind for the city’s decision makers. At the third meeting of Sacramento’s Income Inequality Task Force on August 12, our members took their turn at the public comment podium to give voice to the real experiences of working Californians—and their community partners—who struggle to live on minimum wage.
Here is the official title and summary of the Reed/DeMaio Initiative
The Attorney General of California has prepared the following title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the proposed measure
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. PENSION AND RETIREE HEALTHCARE BENEFITS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Making a positive change in workplace conditions
Steward organizes coworkers to institute telework option at Dept. of Insurance
When Annie Chao took a poll of her coworkers at the Department of Insurance (DOI) in Los Angeles, she found that many had a desire to telework.
A new steward out of the Leadership Apprentice Program for Stewards (LAPS), Chao immediately put her training to work researching options that would help meet that need. LAPS had provided her with a steward toolkit of organizing actions to win important workplace rights for her coworkers.
“I started with the contract,” Chao said. “I found there’s a provision in there for teleworking.”
Fighting workplace bullying
Joel Chan uses the tools of representation to take on abusive managers
There’s a word for managers who yell, play favorites, deny hard-earned working conditions and trample the rights of workers who engage in union activities: bullies. And when your boss is a bully, you need someone to be a champion for you. For an increasing number of our members, that champion is Joel Chan.