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Due to new IRS rules regarding fingerprinting and background checks, the Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) implemented new policies impacting about 400+ of our members. SEIU Local 1000 met multiple times with DCSS and the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) to ensure the department’s implementation was not overly broad and they did not impact any of our members unnecessarily.

Some of the major details from your team’s negotiations include the following:

Bargaining unit representatives Susan Rodriguez (Unit 1, Alternate Vice Chair) and Sophia Perkins (Unit 4, Chair) met with State Fund and CalHR to negotiate impacts to existing performance standards and the creation of new performance standards for Workers Compensation Claims Adjusters (WCCA), Workers Compensation Insurance Technician (WCIT) and Program Technicians (PT) being implemented by State Fund.

Hello everyone,

This is the first of the Bargaining Unit 3 bi-monthly informational letters.  As in past newsletters, this e-publication will be used to keep Unit 3 members informed about what is happening, our contractual rights and how to enforce our contract.  Of course, I want you to contact me with anything you may want to add: an explanation of a specific contract section, giving a shout out to someone or a special conference/book/tool that you think everyone should know about. Feel free to send it to me.

Our Bargaining Unit 3 Classification & Compensation Committee (5.19.3 Committee) met on August 9th, with representatives from the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR), the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Office of Correctional Education and the CDCR Office of Labor Relations. The meeting focused on concerns regarding our Career Technical Educators.

On February 1st, Bargaining Unit 3 representatives held a Meet and Confer with the Office of Correctional Education to discuss the proposed 2018/2019 Academic Calendar. Our discussion focused on usage of the Quarter Break day and establishment and maintenance of the Trade Advisory Councils. During this meeting, your team passed two proposals.  The first proposal concerned the maintenance of the Quarter Break day for the completion of quarterly reporting.  The second proposal requested the reestablishment of the Trade Advisory Councils for our Vocational Instructors. 

Your Bargaining Unit met with representatives of the DJJ on January 18th, to discuss member concerns with salaries, caused by the introduction of the July to June Academic Calendar.

Troy Fennel, Superintendent of Education Service Branch, Christina O’Connell from DJJ Personnel and Caleb McKim, CDCR Labor, met with Bruce Theel, BU3 Chair, Pamm Handel, DJJ/NCYC and Eloise Merrifield, SEIU Local 1000 staff, at  Local 1000 headquarters.

The first Statewide Bargaining Advisory Committee (SBAC) meeting of 2018, was held over the weekend of February 10 and 11, in Los Angeles.

Among the activities at the SBAC meeting was an address by former Teamsters and SEIU Local 1 member Anthony Prince.  Mr. Prince spoke to the SBAC regarding the situation in Wisconsin since the passage of Act 10, the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill and the subsequent passage of “Right to Work” legislation. 

On February 22 and 23, representatives of the Education Service Branch (ESB) of the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), sat down with Bargaining Unit 3 representatives Pamm Handel of the Northern California Youth Correctional Center, and Susan Stuart of the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility, along with Bruce Theel, Bargaining Unit 3 Chair.

Local 1000 building relationships to enhance SB 825 prison pre-apprenticeship program

On January 11, Unit 3 Chair Bruce Theel along with Nancy Farias, Director of Government Affairs, and Legislative Advocate Tim Kamermayer met with Senator James Beall’s Chief of Staff, Sunshine Borelli, and Cesar Diaz, the Legislative and Political Director of the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, regarding SB 825 – state prisons pre-apprenticeship program.