Unit 14: Printing Trades

On Wednesday, August 21, the Unit 14 bargaining team signed a “roll-over” tentative agreement (TA) that ensures Digital Print Operator IIs will continue to receive their Skill Pay Differential of 3 percent for operating the HP 10000 Digital Press at the Office of State Publishing.

Earlier in the bargaining process state negotiators had indicated that they were interested in taking away the differential on this provision. However, on Wednesday morning they agreed to drop any new proposals and signed the “roll-over” language.

Our Unit 14 bargaining team went back to the table on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, and continued to sign tentative agreements with state negotiators that preserve protections and opportunities for our Unit 14 printers.  

Our Unit 14 bargaining team met with the State’s bargaining team on Tuesday July 9^th, 2019 to talk about the changing nature of their industry and to call for fair compensation by submitting a special salary adjustment for all 34 of the classifications they represent.

Due to new IRS rules regarding fingerprinting and background checks, the Employment Development Department (EDD) implemented new policies impacting about 5500+ of our members. Local 1000 met multiple times with EDD and the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) to ensure the implementation was not overly broad and did not impact any of our members unnecessarily.

Some of the major results of our team’s negotiations include the following:

CalPERS puts out a quarterly magazine to keep its members updated on recent news and decisions.  CalPERS works with the Office of State Publishing (OSP) for the printing of this magazine but recently decided to outsource the mailing services for the magazine.  The mailing services have traditionally been performed by our members in Unit 14.

Our bargaining team met with the state for the first time in three months and ended the week frustrated by a continued lack of movement by the state on key issues. 

Earlier in the week, our team presented eye-opening information illustrating the gender pay gap in state civil service. Our union is 66% women and 34% men. The seven unions the state has reached agreement with, overwhelmingly comprised of men, are paid a staggering 43% more than Local 1000 members.

The Office of State Printing held its annual “Tailgate Meeting” on September 24, 2015.  The meeting was held in the newly completed warehouse addition at the 1050 Richards Boulevard location. The State Printer, Jerry Hill, spoke to OSP employees about the current state of OSP and reviewed statistics from the prior year.  Hill commented that only ten percent (10%) of OSP clients make up ninety percent (90%) of their revenue.  The Department of Motor Vehicles stands at the top of the OSP client list. 

Thanks to an agreement negotiated by Local 1000, nearly all represented workers at the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) will receive a 2.4 percent performance award this year. Announced on February 20, the annual award will go to everyone who is qualified to receive it.

Our Unit 14 bargaining team – representing printers and allied trades – signed tentative agreements on dozens of existing contract provisions that represent gains from previous contracts.

Unit 14 signed a proposal earlier this month that is designed to prevent management from playing favorites when it comes to overtime assignments by assigning overtime to lower paid employees in lower classifications.
Master Table bargaining resumes tomorrow.

Today, Local 1000 returned to the negotiating table to meet with representatives from the state and continue bargaining for our new contract. The state spent the last two weeks reviewing the proposals we gave them in April – 31 Master Table proposals affecting all Local 1000-represented employees and 50 different proposals affecting our nine individual bargaining units.