Search: My Contract, 2014

Local 1000 is aggressively pushing a grievance over the ratio of Permanent Intermittent (PI) employees at the Employment Development Department (EDD) to arbitration after the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) recently rejected our claim. 
Our contract has long-standing language limiting the number of PI employees to no more than 20 percent of the number of staff positions in each of the EDD departments. 

The Bargaining Unit 1 Recruitment and Retention (R&R) Team has completed reviewing the applications and have selected the classifications that will be presented to the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) for assessment.  The R&R team would like to thank the 500 members that took the time to complete these applications and represent their classifications issues. 

The following are the ten classification/classification series that have been selected to be presented to CalHR for review:

After months of collaboration with state officials to address issues facing EDD, Local 1000 hosted new Director Patrick Henning Jr. in a meeting with Local 1000 stewards, to hear first-hand the comments and concerns of rank-and-file workers now in his charge. He came to underscore his commitment to “helping Californians when they are at possibly the lowest point in their lives.”

CDCR’s Office of Correctional Education just came out with its new academic calendar for 2015/2016. Prison teachers in Bargaining Unit 3 are gaining new scheduling flexibility in the 2015-16 academic year as a result of Local 1000’s persistent advocacy efforts. The new calendar retains 208 instructional days, eight staff development days and four quarterly teacher workdays, but the prison schools will stay open a few more days per year, allowing individual teachers to choose some of the instructional days.

The state’s prison librarians, who perform some of the most complicated duties of any librarians in California, are organizing to update their nearly 40-year-old job specifications.

The academic calendar for Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) teachers has been released.  The calendar is for the academic year that starts August 1, 2015. 

To see and download next year’s academic calendar, click here.

A recently completed survey of more than 300 prison educators provided Local 1000 with some valuable feedback about ongoing initiatives and working conditions within state facilities.
The survey demonstrates that the overall, the sentiment of the respondents is that CDCR’s efforts to improve educational opportunities for prisoners are heading in the right direction.
Local 1000 looks forward to collaborating with CDCR to further rebuild and improve prison education.

Local 1000 Educators …

… broadly support the Voluntary Education Program (VEP) model

Please support educators in Bargaining Unit 3 by participating in a survey which will guide the future of educational programming in CDCR. 
In 2011, a survey of teachers by SEIU Local 1000 led to progress through policy and legislation. SB 1121 became law at the beginning of 2013 and requires the involvement of credentialed educators in inmate student assignment decisions.  

Help us shape our educational system by taking the survey.