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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.”
Retirement Security for All Californians
Local 1000 member shares struggles as retirement board designs relief plan
The Local 1000-supported goal of creating a retirement safety net for Californians with no workplace plan came nearer its goal on September 28 as the Secure Choice Retirement board considered detailed information about how that state-run plan should work. Local 1000 was there to make sure our members’ voices are heard as important decisions are made on this groundbreaking program.
Pension attack fails, new threats launched
After a dangerous and deceptive pension initiative failed to gain support, right-wing extremists Chuck Reed and Carl DeMaio have come out with two new proposals that continue their efforts to degrade the hard-earned pension benefits of public employees.
While their new approach appears to dial back the threat to current workers, the new attacks are just as dangerous. Everyone who cares about the economic security of California as a large segment of our population moves toward retirement should take this multi-pronged attack very seriously.
Fighting the growing retirement security crisis
Local 1000 is spearheading a coalition of labor, faith and social justice groups to expand programs that address the growing retirement crisis facing millions of Californians.
Last month, our union cohosted a coalition-building event that released research reviewing this growing crisis and what Californians will face at retirement age without new policies to change the future.
More upward mobility, less outsourcing
JLMC promotes new skills database at CalPERS Information Technology Services Branch
When Job Steward Lonnie “Tony” Owens attended a Joint Labor Management Committee (JLMC) meeting last year, he came prepared to present management with the concerns of his CalPERS coworkers in the Information Technology Services Branch (ITSB).
What he provided was perspective regarding the staff’s frustration with the department’s lack of communication concerning their critical skills and training. That vacuum of communication too often leads to work being outsourced that could have been done by existing state staff.
IT Classification Survey
Make your voice heard
Local 1000 has launched a comprehensive survey that will advance the effort to review job specifications that have not been updated in decades.
We have made it a high priority to resolve the problems with IT classifications, training, compensation and outsourcing. The state has committed to working with the union by modernizing the IT classification system. Both parties recognize a mutual interest in adapting to the changes in a field with a highly competitive labor market.
Local 1000 and CalPERS work together to improve privacy and conflict of interest policies
Systems and Work Place Privacy Policy
This week, Local 1000 and CalPERS worked together to clarify the language in CalPERS’ Systems and Work Place Privacy policy, in order to make sure that it was no more expansive than necessary . The Union was represented by Brenda Modkins, Bargaining Unit 1 chair, Karen Jefferies, a Unit 4 Bargaining Unit Negotiating Committee member, Latreece Smith, the president of DLC 781 and CalPERS representative and the contract department staff.
Recruitment and Retention Committee Post
Local 1000 takes action on Recruitment and Retention in Unit 1
Recruitment and retention is moving forward in Bargaining Unit 1. Local 1000 has set a May 5 meeting with CalHR to discuss ground rules and the order in which to discuss information about the various classification and classification groupings.
The Bargaining Unit Negotiation Committee members have been assigned to the classifications/groups and are working on organizing those groups and building support in the field for the groups to which they have been assigned.
The BUNC members who have been assigned to each group are as follows:
Holiday Message
To all those who make up the family of Bargaining Unit 3:
On behalf of the members of the Bargaining Unit Negotiation Committee (BUNC) and the members of the Statewide Bargaining Advisory Committee (SBAC), I extend to you all our best wishes for a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year.