Unit 14: Printing Trades
Unit 14
Printing Trades
Unit 14 includes employees at the Office of State Publishing where the state budget, bills and laws and other state documents are printed. This unit also includes printers and graphic artists in individual departments throughout the state.
Supervisor Duties Dumped on HFENs
Health Facilities Evaluator Nurses (HFENs) have been working non-stop to ensure that health facilities follow State and Federal laws to protect the public. This has been an especially hard task given that the pandemic has made health facilities an area of great concern.
FTB Notice of Update to Remote Work Plan
Phase 2 Meet and Confer
On Thursday, September 9, 2021, our Union met with the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) to meet and confer on FTB’s notice of Phase 2 of the Updated Remote Work Plan. Phase 2 is presently set to begin November 1, 2021, and will bring employees who are currently teleworking one hundred percent (100%) of the time into the office an equivalent of twenty percent (20%) of their time or equivalent to one day a week.
DGS-OSP Meet and Confer – Chair Policy
On Wednesday, July 28, 2021, our Union met with the Department of General Services- Office of State Publishing (DGS-OSP) to meet and confer over the new chair policy.
Progress was made and representative member leaders asked key questions related to health and safety. A picture of the new chairs on-order that will be used at the computer stations were shared. The Union is following up with an information request on the plan for the placement of all the chairs, which DGS-OSP has agreed to provide.
Department of State Hospitals Health and Safety Committee Survey
Every DSH facility is entitled to have a Health and Safety Committee, according to our MOU (contract), Section 10.2. Because of this, members of our Union are working hard to ensure Health and Safety Committees exist and are successful at each facility.
Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
Temperature Screening
On September 15, 2020, our Union met with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to discuss the Field Office Temperature Screening Expansion implementation within DMV field offices throughout the state.
As part of the effort by the DMV to actively manage the spread and containment of COVID-19 in accordance with CDC and CDPH guidance, the Field Operations Division (FOD) will implement employee and customer focused screening protocols which will include a health questionnaire and temperature screening.
Bilingual Differential Increase Implementation
For the first time in 42 years, we were able to increase the Bilingual Pay Differential to $200/month. This comes after 20 years of fighting for an increase including a joint task force and hundreds of members telling their story. We have been fighting for the implementation of
Bargaining Unit 14 – 1st Quarter Report of 2020
JLMC Statewide Meeting
SEIU Local 1000’s Joint Labor Management Committee (JLMC) members from the Department of General Services – Office of State Publishing (OSP) met on February 5, 2020, for the first quarterly statewide JLMC meeting of 2020.