Working Together
With California facing a $19 billion budget shortfall, the Governor has called for pension cuts for state employees — including members of CCPOA.
We're willing to negotiate with the Governor over pension cuts. But one thing we know is fixing the state budget won't be possible without solving California's prison crisis.
It's time for comprehensive prison reform, and we have the ideas and experience to get it done.
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Fighting For You
January 10, 2012
CCPOA Member Alert: Rob McGowan Update
This morning, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena heard arguments in the case of Officer Rob McGowan. The 3 judge panel did not issue a ruling but they took the renewed motion to set Mr. McGowan free during the remainder of his appeal under submission. CCPOA and Mr. McGowan’s attorney are very encouraged by the tenor of the arguments that were made on his behalf...
December 20, 2011
2012 State Contribution Rates for Health Care
As noted earlier, the State Contribution rates are increasing. This is occurring because of our bargaining efforts and the members’ passage of the current MOU. Please distribute this information to your membership and remind them that this is one of the benefits they received due to their willingness to agree to the terms of the contract we now live under. In times of cuts and sacrifices, due to extreme financial woes statewide and nationwide, having an increase in our member’s net pay should be a welcome relief...
November 21, 2011
2011 Thanksgiving Letter from CCPOA
Dear CCPOA Member,
With the Thanksgiving holiday just a few days away, now is the time for us to remember all the things in our lives we should be thankful for - our families and loved ones, our friends and neighbors, and for the men and women who walk the toughest beat.
This has been a year of challenges and successes for CCPOA, and I am thankful for the hard work and dedication shown by every member of our union. As many of you know, CCPOA board members recently convened to discuss the issues before us and to begin writing the next chapter in our union's history...
September 22, 2011
Court may rule on CCPOA furlough case any time
Several State Worker blog users have asked about the status of two furlough cases in San Francisco's 1st District Court of Appeal. The short answer: The court could issue rulings in either case any day now.
CCPOA v. Brown (formerly CCPOA v. Schwarzenegger) is the government's appeal of a lower court's ruling that "self-directed" furloughs are an illegal pay cut, since employees lost their pay but were often forced to put off taking the commensurate time off.
Attorneys argued the case on Aug. 18. Legal types we've spoken with believe that this is the strongest of the union furlough cases, since it's about whether the policy violated labor law...
LINK - SacBee.com
September 21, 2011
Memo Re: California Automated Travel Expense Reimbursement System
Bargaining Unit 6 members have been utilizing CalATERS in some form or another for the past two years for the purpose of reimbursement for travel or overtime meal allowance claims. The major problem has been that the process for utilizing CalATERS has been very diverse from institution to institution, often times making reimbursement for legitimate compensation unduly difficult and time-consuming...
February 2, 2011
Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
Lawsuit Seeking Unpaid Overtime Wages for Uncompensated Pre-and Post-Work Activities “Certified” As a Class Action for Approximately 30,000 Unit 6 Employees and Supervisors
November 22, 2010
UPDATE: CCPOA files appellate brief in ‘self-directed’ furlough case
The California Correctional Peace Officers Association filed a 42-page brief on Friday, arguing that the California Supreme Court's furlough ruling last month didn't wipe out an Alameda judge's earlier ruling that "self-directed" furloughs are illegal.
"The governor says that the (Supreme Court's) ruling is a big blanket that you can throw over all furloughs," said Gregg Adam, one of the attorneys with San Francisco law firm Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, which represents CCPOA. "Obviously, we disagree."
Self-directed furloughs deduct an employee's pay at the furlough rate of roughly 15 percent per month, but the time off is deferred. The 32,000 or so correctional officers represented by CCPOA continue to work under self-directed furloughs. They're among the roughly 63,000 state workers represented by unions without current labor pacts...
LINK - SacBee.com
October 8, 2010
EC Budget Update
The California Legislature passed the State Budget early this morning. Members of the CCPOA Executive Council and the CCPOA Legislative Division held an all night vigil in the State Capitol during this process. We were successful in keeping the “pension reform” as written from achieving the required two-thirds votes for passage. However, in the early morning hours the Legislature gutted another bill, loaded the pension reform into that bill and passed it with a simple majority vote.
Considering the fiscal state of the state we made it quite clear, as we have all along, that we were more than willing to agree to pension reform and possible concessions in return for our work place rights (an MOU). The legislative leadership either would not or could not stand up to the Governor on behalf of the men and women in this profession...
October 6, 2010
Memo from Chuck Alexander to Legislators re: Pension Reform
The following is a copy of the letter sent from CCPOA Executive Vice President Chuck Alexander to the entire state Senate today concerning the tentative state budget proposals.
Please take a moment to read the letter. An identical letter was also sent to all members of the state Assembly.
Also, if you are interested, please contact the office of your state Assembly member and state senator to voice your opinion on this proposed budget plan.
You can find out who your legislators are by going to the CCPOA website and clicking on the link on the left-side of the page.
