2011 Mou
June 9, 2011
Update on the Issues: June 9, 2011
MOU
The final edits and corrections on the newly ratified MOU are taking place this week, and hopefully the MOU will be in the hands of the printer shortly. One quick note - there is some confusion regarding the Personal Development Days (PDD). Four PDDs will be posted on January 1, 2012 (no PDDs in 2011). PDDs must be used in the calendar year issued (use it, or lose it), therefore, PDD leave will be used prior to all other leave credits...
June 1, 2011
Mike Jimenez speaks to Sac Bee about contract, cussing, CHP and continuing as CCPOA’s president
From the notebook: Mike Jimenez talks contract, cussing and continuing as CCPOA's president
We never get all of what we learn into a news story, but this blog can give users data, notes and quotes from the notebookthat informed what we published. This is the third in a series of posts spinning off "California Highway Patrol, prison officers compete for pay, respect," published on Tuesday.
Mike Jimenez, president of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, sat down with The State Worker last month for a lengthy discussion that informed Tuesday's story in The Bee about CCPOA and its sometimes-contentious relationship with the California Association of Highway Patrolmen.
Over breakfast at Crepeville in Midtown Sacramento, Jimenez talked about Gov. Jerry Brown, battles with former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the union's future (including his decision to run for a third term, which we reported in this post)...
LINK - SacBee.com (The State Worker)
May 31, 2011
Earned vacation should be forfeit if mgmt refuses to let workers use them?
I’m still fuming about the Supreme Court’s decision forcing California to release 46,000 prisoners into our streets. The response from conservative, common sense pundits has been pretty universal: this is an outrageous decision that will result in more crime. The real travesty in all of this is that it could have been avoided. As I mention in the following video blog, money isn’t the issue. At least, not the amount of money, just how it’s being spent…
Even for jaded politicos, it’s shocking that Governor Brown’s initial response to the matter is to turn it into a blatant appeal for higher taxes. It’s almost like extortion: your wallet for your safety. Even the Sacramento Bee acknowledged the crass politicking with this headline: “Jerry Brown calls prison ruling a reason for taxes”
While it might be more frightening to be mugged by one of the thugs that will soon be unleashed on us, is it any less immoral for our leaders to demand our money or our safety? When California’s crime inevitably increases because of the state’s failure to build enough prisons, it will be on the heads of every government leader who sold out to the unions...
LINK - FlashReport.org
May 31, 2011
Another newspaper editor gets it wrong on CCPOA MOU
We could not help but notice that members of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, affectionately referred to as the “prison guards union,” voted 85 percent in the affirmative to ratify a new contract proposal that was approved by the state Legislature.
At first glance, nothing unusual, you might think. But it is like that old jar of mayonnaise in the refrigerator. You never really know until you crack it open for the smell test.
Some of us on The Signal Editorial Board have been active members of unions in the private sector, so we get the value unions can bring in creating more balance in the distribution of compensations in a free-market society.
And in a way, our hats go off to the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. Its members are focused in what they want and well-organized in pursuing it...
LINK - The-Signal.com
May 31, 2011
CHP, CCPOA comparison in the news
The "pony riders" vs. "thugs" feud goes back a half-century, long before state workers unionized.
Ostensibly, the battle between the California Association of Highway Patrolmen and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association is about money. It's really always been about what money represents: respect.
"It's like sitting in a bar with guys in the Army and the Marines when the conversation turns to, 'Who's the toughest?' " said Tim Hodson, who heads the Center for California Studies at California State University, Sacramento. "Who's more macho?"
Take the new contract negotiated by the correctional officers and signed this month by Gov. Jerry Brown...
LINK - SacBee.com
May 24, 2011
Greenhut spreads a number of lies about CCPOA, MOU
When California governor Jerry Brown announced details last month of a two-year contract that he’d negotiated with California’s prison guards’ union, you could practically hear the sighs of disappointment from stalwarts who had hoped that the 73-year-old maverick might take on a few vested interests as he tried to close the state’s $15 billion budget gap. That hope was always at odds with reality: last year, public-sector unions poured $30 million into independent campaign expenditures on Brown’s behalf, including $2 million from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). So the favorable new union contract shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it should deflate the wishful thinking that Brown is likely to be a radical reformer—unless you consider extending tax increases and restricting the use of state cars and cell phones real reform...
LINK - City-Journal.org
May 18, 2011
CCPOA contract, Pelican Bay in the news
More than 860 correctional officers at Pelican Bay State Prison will have to pay more toward their pensions but take fewer unpaid furlough days under a new contract signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Several labor contracts within Senate Bill 151 were approved Monday by the state Assembly on a 54-18 vote and presented to the governor.
The contracts affect more than 50,000 state workers, including prison guards, engineers, administrative law judges and other law enforcement officials...
LINK - Triplicate.com
May 17, 2011
Supervisory Update: May 17, 2011
Dear Supervisory Member:
As you all should be aware by now the rank and file Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was ratified by the Assembly yesterday afternoon and signed by Governor Brown late yesterday as well. This deal, while perhaps not as wonderful as portrayed in the media, was non-the less a long time coming. And under the current fiscal realities facing the State of California it provides much needed protections to our members.
As I have stated previously I was present at the table for the last two weeks of negotiations as an observer. Some of you may remember this was a major issue under the Schwarzenegger administration, supervisors present at rank and file negotiations that is. Additionally I was present in the Governors Office the final day of negotiations also as the administrations imposed deadline loomed...
May 17, 2011
CCPOA’s MOU bill signed by Governor Brown
Last night, after our MOU was approved by the California State Assembly, it was sent to Governor Brownʼs desk for approval. Governor Brown signed the bill into law...
May 16, 2011
CCPOA Member Alert - 5/16/2011
At approximately 1:00 pm this afternoon, the California State Assembly granted final approval to Senate Bill 151 (Correa) on its first floor vote attempt. Our MOU was able to garner the requisite 2/3 vote necessary for its passage. The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Brown for his signature.
All 52 Assembly Democrats voted “AYE” for the bill...
May 16, 2011
Labor contracts headed to Gov. Jerry Brown
Labor contracts for about 60,000 California state workers, including correctional officers, cleared their final legislative hurdle today and are headed to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.
Senate Bill 151 contains the negotiated pacts for prison guards, engineers, scientists, administrative law judges and other law enforcement officials. The Assembly approved the pacts on a 54-17 vote.
The deals are similar to those reached by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last year with 15 other bargaining units...
LINK - SacBee.com
May 16, 2011
Correctional officers union OKs tentative pact
The California Correctional Peace Officers Association said Saturday that its members have approved the union's tentative agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown by a wide margin.
CCPOA spokesman JeVaughn Baker said 11,651 of the ballots cast, 85.6 percent, favored the contract. He said 1,960, or 14.4 percent, opposed the deal.
The union represents roughly 32,000 correctional and parole officers who have been working without a contract since 2006. In 2007, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger imposed terms on the union after mediated talks broke down...
LINK - SacBee.com
May 14, 2011
CCPOA Contract Vote Results
Final Membership Vote Totals on the CCPOA Contract
11,651 voted yes 85.6%
1,960 voted no 14.4%
13,611 Total Ballots Counted
May 9, 2011
Assembly Committee Approves CCOPA MOU Bill
The Assembly Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security approved SB 151 (Correa) earlier today.
Democrat Assembly members Warren Furutani, Michael Allen, Bob Wieckowski, & Fiona Ma all voted AYE.
Republican Assembly member Allan Mansoor was the lone “NO” vote.
Republican Assembly member Diane Harkey was not present for the vote, although the committee chair stated that she would be allowed to “add-on” before the committee adjourned for the day.
The bill now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee where it is scheduled to be heard this Wednesday, May 11.
May 3, 2011
Senate approves 6 contracts with state employees
California prison guards and other state employees are closer to having a labor contract.
The Senate on Monday approved six contracts covering more than 50,000 prison guards, engineers, scientists and other state workers.
Senators passed the bill, 27-13, despite concerns from some lawmakers that the contracts did not save as much money as expected by earlier projections...
LINK - ContraCostaTimes.com
May 3, 2011
OC Register opines on CCPOA, other contracts - and gets it wrong - again
Californians have been let down twice already by their representatives in Sacramento, and another disappointment may be looming as final approval of union contracts for 51,000 public employees will be considered by the Assembly any day now.
Despite promising to save more than $500 million in negotiating the six contracts, Gov. Jerry Brown instead negotiated agreements saving taxpayers $300 million. That's a 40 percent shortfall, but not too surprising, considering how nearly 100 percent indebted the governor is to public employee unions, which largely financed his election campaign...
LINK - OCRegister.com
May 2, 2011
Senate approves six state worker labor contracts
Legislation to adopt contract agreements reached with six state employee bargaining units including a controversial labor pact for state prison guards union, squeaked through the Senate today.
Senate Bill 151, by Democratic Sen. Lou Correa, initially came up one vote short of passage, 26-14, but cleared the upper house when Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, changed his vote after a roughly two-hour recess. Sen. Sam Blakeslee, of San Luis Obispo, was the only other Republican who voted for the bill.
The bill ratifies the agreements Gov. Jerry Brown reached with bargaining units representing correctional officers, engineers, scientists, administrative law judges and other law enforcement officials. The measure now moves to the Assembly...
LINK - SacBee.com
April 26, 2011
Attention Military Members
With the promise of a new MOU in the works and the advent of the POFF II being discontinued, I have found several discrepancies in my own PERS and POFF II calculations. While I was in Iraq from NOV 03 through NOV 04, and the time I spent on medical hold afterward, my institution did not send the proper information to PERS or the administrators of the POFF II retirement system. Therefore, I was not credited with the proper time from the deployment...
April 21, 2011
CCPOA First Watch - 4/21/2011
CCPOA First Watch Episode #14
Posted: April 21, 2011
Flash Video - Full Screen Available
April 20, 2011
Setting it straight
An editorial Sunday, "Brown regresses on prison contract," included several assertions that deserve correction regarding a 218-page contract the Brown administration has proposed for state prison officers:
• Salary increases for officers would not be tied to compensation for sheriff's deputies in Los Angeles County and police elsewhere. That language, included in a previous contract, was stricken from the current proposal...
LINK - SacBee.com
April 20, 2011
Re: SacBee Editorial: “Brown regresses on prison contract”
Letter to the Editor from Chuck Alexander:
Politics of the Editorial Board aside, it's grossly irresponsible of the Bee to print a list of "highlights" concerning CCPOA's proposed contract which are blatantly false...
[see .pdf file of letter attached at the bottom for full text]
The SacBee.com Editorial:
While he was governor, Gray Davis approved a plum contract for the state's 30,000 prison guards that effectively gave the California Correctional Peace Officers Association management control over the state's prison system.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worked to wrest back control of the prisons from the CCPOA. But now that he is governor, Jerry Brown is reversing those hard-earned reforms on behalf of a major campaign contributor.
If this were a movie, we'd call it "Contract Giveaway: The Return of Gray," starring Jerry Brown...
LINK - SacBee.com
