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WHAT TO DO IF YOU RECEIVE A LAYOFF NOTICE

Bargaining Unit 6 employees subject to layoff should anticipate receiving a layoff notice soon, perhaps as early as Friday, January 27, 2012. If you receive a layoff notice and you believe you have reasons to contest your layoff due to errors in your seniority score, the form of the notice, or the layoff procedure itself, contact our CCPOA field representative, Corey Davis, immediately so that your case can be evaluated in a timely manner. Corey Davis can be reached by calling our Sacramento Office at (800) 821-6443 or (916) 372-6060...

Meet & Confer Notices: Week of January 20, 2012

Meet and Confer notices for the week of January 20th including: Emergency Revision of January 2012 Institution Activation Schedule and Issuance of February 2012 Institution Activation Schedule; Implementation of EO B-11-11 and Senate Bill 26 Supervisory; Access to Care Unit Post Redirections at Chuckwalla Valley State Prison; and AB 109 Position Elimination at CCC...

Meet and Confer Notices: January 13, 2012

Meet and Confer Notices for the week of January 13, 2012 including Ad-Seg Overflow at VSPW and Operational Procedure Number 418 - Medication Management at CIW...

Meet and Confer Notices: December 30, 2011

Meet and Confer Notices for the Week of December 30, 2011 including: 

  • AB 109 Institution Conversion - CIW Supervisory
  • AB 109 Institution Conversion - CCI
  • AB 109 Institution Conversion - CCI Supervisory

CA State Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case on Corrections Furloughs

The state Supreme Court yesterday denied review of a First District Court of Appeal decision allowing the state to furlough unionized correctional officers.

The court voted 6-0 to allow the ruling in Brown v. Superior Court (California Correctional Peace Officers’ Association), A127292, to stand. The First District’s Div. Two ruled in October that the three-day-per-month furlough program initiated during Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration is lawful as applied to facilities manned by employees represented by the California Correctional Peace Officers Association....

LINK - MetNews.com

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...

Meet and Confer Notices: December 20, 2011

Revisions to the DOM Regarding Seniority For Designated Supervisors and Managers

Public Safety Realignment Act Institution Conversion Valley State Prison for Women – log #11-171

Public Safety Realignment Act Institution Conversion Valley State Prison for Women – log #11-172

Implementation of Pilot Program for Alternative Treatment Option Models

CCI: Implementation of Operational Procedure 209

AB 109 Institution Conversion – CSP Corcoran

DJJ Ventura Behavior Treatment Program Closure Dispute

AB 109 Institution Conversion – CSP LAC 

Statewide Agreement: VYCF DIGITAL CAMERA POLICY

 

This Agreement represents 'the full and complete understanding reached by and between the parties at the conclusion of Meet and Confer negotiations on September 15, 2011, regarding the VYCF Digital Camera Policy...

Initiative Attorney General File #: 2011-052 Repeal Dills Act (Amendment #1S)

This measure repeals the Dills Act and related provisions regarding excluded employees. The measure prohibits state employees from engaging in strikes against a state employer.

Illinois Pension Reform Heads To Governor Quinn

Double-dipping into government pension systems is about to end in Illinois. Both Democrats and Republicans took a stand to close a loophole that allows union leaders to draw pensions from both labor and government pension systems. House Minority Leader Tom Cross says it was time to end the abusive practice. "We're talking in cases where there are individuals that are getting more than one pension, and it's hard to be sympathetic to a fellow who substitute teaches for a day and retires with a city pension and a union pension", said Cross...

LINK - WJBDRadio.com