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CCPOA - 5150 Hotline from Lance CorcoranWelcome to the new-and-improved 5150 hotline now available to listen to online OR save it to your wireless devices and MP3-enabled smart phones! MP3 Audio - Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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Can't view the Flash Audio Player (above) in your browser? CLICK HERE to play in your computer's default audio player. If you have any problems downloading or listening to the audio-version of the 5150 Hotline, please contact the webmaster direct via webmaster@ccpoa.org. Text Version - Tuesday, April 8, 2008Hello and thanks for calling the CCPOA 5150 hotline, today is Tuesday, April 8th and here is the latest news from Sacramento. For CCPOA members in Southern California - State President Mike Jimenez will be holding Town Hall meetings at the following times and locations: On Thursday, April 10th - President Jimenez will be at the 5:00 p.m. R.J. Donovan Chapter meeting at La Bella Pizza which is located at 373 3rd Avenue in Chula Vista. Also, President Jimenez will be in Chino on Wednesday, April 16th at Marisco's Mexican Restaurant (formerly known as Zendejas) which is located at 12811 Mountain Avenue, on the corner of Mountain Avenue and Riverside Drive, at about 3:00 p.m. If you live in the area, please come out to hear Mike talk about all of the issues facing CCPOA members - the first round of Town Hall Meetings held in Blythe, Imperial, and Bakersfield were very well attended with nearly 200 members showing up in Bakersfield alone. In contract news, on April 16, and 17, CCPOA and the Department of Personnel Administration will appear at a hearing before the Public Employees Relations Board regarding the complaint ruling issued by PERB in December of 2007. As many members will recall, it was in December that the PERB ruled that the state had gone too far in trying to implement the conditions of their Last, Best, and Final Offer to CCPOA for three years. PERB ruled that the state could only implement the terms of the LBFO for one year. It has been, and it remains the position of CCPOA that under the Ralph C. Dills Act - when PERB changed the terms of the LBFO from three years to one - it required the parties to return to the bargaining table. Since that time we have been trying to force the state back to the table. It is our hope that the PERB hearing will bring the state back to the negotiating table and we can again attempt to get a contract for Unit 6 members. Also of interest to many members is the CDCR implementation of an 80 hour cap for overtime. This cap applies only to correctional officers and the impact of this change is currently being negotiated by CCPOA and the state. What brought this cap in overtime on was an Assembly Bill passed in 2003. AB 1758 was a budget bill in 2003 which, among other things, established an 80 hour overtime cap for correctional officers. The goal was to force the CDCR to stop relying so heavily on overtime behind vacant positions. For many years it was routinely reported that correctional officer vacancies numbered more than 4000 in California. After AB 1758 was passed it was incorporated into Government Code Section 19851.1. The cap applies to both voluntary and involuntary overtime. However, institutional needs will still allow the department to involuntarily have officers work more than 80 hours when they feel it is necessary. In the words of one DPA negotiator who stated: "There are no exceptions to the statute; however, we are certain it was not the intent of the legislature to have absurd results and there will be times when officers will have to work beyond the cap. We have to run the operation." So we shouldn't see transportation buses pulled over to the side of the road because an officer went over 80 hours. Nor in the heat of a riot, will officers be sent home because they just hit their 80. As we continue to negotiate the implementation of the 80 hour cap, we will update the information on the hotline. For our supervisory members there a couple of updates: In June of 2007, CCPOA filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court to secure for our Supervisors the same 3.125 % increase that CCPOA won for our rank and file members. This was the monies owed to our members from the DPA shenanigans from July of 2005 through January of 2007. The award to rank and file was for over 200 million dollars. We are now set for trial to try to get Supervisors the back pay for the raises they should have gotten all along. The trial date is May 19, 2008 in San Francisco Superior Court. For those who want to track the case online - log onto www.sftc.org then follow the prompts to the San Francisco "e-court" and search for the case using case #464491. Also for CCPOA Supervisors only - Supervisory Vice President, Robert Dean, announces the new CCPOA Assistance Program for S06 & M06 Supervisory Members & their families. This program is provided through The Holman Group, Managed Behavioral Health Care Services - who can be reached either by calling 800-321-2843 or through their website, www.holmangroup.com. This is a CCPOA sponsored & paid for benefit which offers confidential assistance & community referral resources for life's problems. It includes, but is not limited to, the following: 24 hour a day 7 day a week access for crisis/emergency situations and for appointments -7:30AM to 6:30PM Monday through Friday. Ten free sessions are provided regarding the following types of issues:
The new issue of the Peacekeeper magazine should be in your home mailboxes - and be sure the check out the cover story "Courage Under Fire" it's one correctional officers story asking for a fair contract given all that our members sacrifice. At CCI Tehachapi just last week two Sergeants and two Correctional Officers were viciously assaulted by Southern Hispanic inmates - thankfully, all survived. For the latest in news happening around the state, make sure you check out California Pens on the newly redesigned CCPOA website, ccpoa.org. Cal Pens is the section where we list all of the assaults and incidents that are reported to us here at CCPOA. If you don't see your incident or assault - chances are we did not hear about it - if you have information that you want included in Cal Pens - give us a call at CCPOA Headquarters and ask for Nichol Gomez. Nichol is working hard to make sure that our members can go to one place for all assault news. And lastly, don't forget the Town Halls meeting with CCPOA President Mike Jimenez - Thursday, April 10, at the 5:00 p.m. RJ. Donovan Chapter meeting at La Bella's Pizza, 373 3rd Avenue in Chula Vista and approximately 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16th at Marisco's Mexican Restaurant 12811 Mountain Avenue - corner of Mountain and Riverside Drive. That's it for now - take care and have a safe shift.  |
