MEA and City Reach Tentative Agreement on “Make Whole” Remedy For Active Prop B Employees
We are pleased to report that MEA has reached a Tentative Agreement with the City over the implementation of a “make whole” remedy for active Prop B employees now that we achieved a court order invalidating Prop B and ordering the City to strike it from the City Charter. This agreement comes almost exactly 10 years after MEA filed its […]
Read more >>Good News! MEA-negotiated Special Salary Adjustments begin to hit paychecks this week
Last year, MEA members ratified the current MOU which includes both general and special salary increases (SSAs). We are happy to remind you that effective January 1, your classification received an SSA, and that increase will begin to be seen in this week’s paycheck. Since January 1 occurred in the middle of a pay period, only about half of the […]
Read more >>MEA Office Holiday Hours
The MEA office will be closed from December 24th through January 2nd. If you have a work place emergency, please email us at info@sdmea.org. MEA would like to wish you and your family a safe and happy holiday season!
Read more >>Voting for YOUR Pension Board Representative – Election is Now Open
Employees hired before July 20, 2012 are eligible to vote in the election for a new SDCERS Board Trustee representing general members at the City of San Diego. (If you were hired after July 20, 2012, unfortunately you are not eligible to vote in this election…but you will in the near future once Prop B is finally unwound!) Eligible voters will soon […]
Read more >>Vaccine Mandate Update Message From Ann M. Smith and MEA — Meet and Confer Over Impacts Has Ended; What This Means For You
Dear MEA Members: This message is an update to the information previously provided by MEA on September 30th, October 7th and October 22nd. As of this writing, the City has now fulfilled its limited obligations under State law to meet and confer with MEA over the impacts of its decision to require proof of full COVID-19 vaccinated status by December 1st as a condition […]
Read more >>Important MEA Update on Vaccine Mandate Meet and Confer
As you know, MEA’s meet and confer efforts with the City over its announced vaccine mandate policy have been in progress for several weeks. Update messages were sent to you on 9/30, 10/8 and 10/12. We met again with the City Negotiating Team on Monday and Wednesday this week. In anticipation of the Mayor’s Negotiating Team giving an update in […]
Read more >>Update Message from Ann M. Smith re Prop B-Related Meet and Confer
Dear MEA Members: For those of you hired between July 19, 2012 and July 10, 2021, who were excluded from the City’s defined benefit pension plan because of the Proposition B charter amendments, you are waiting for news of how and when the Court-approved “make whole” remedy will be implemented now that the courts have declared Prop B invalid after ten years of litigation. […]
Read more >>Update Message from MEA Attorney Ann M. Smith Re City’s Vaccine Mandate
Dear MEA Members: To recap, my message to you on 9/30/21 covered the general issues of legality surrounding the City’s vaccine mandate. My next message to you on 10/8 summed up various questions which were posed to the City on behalf of MEA-represented employees after the City’s messaging became confusing – i.e., had a firm policy decision been made or […]
Read more >>Follow Up Message From MEA Attorney Ann Smith Regarding the City’s Vaccine Mandate Policy
Dear MEA Members: I hope this message finds you all doing reasonably well. After MEA disseminated my e-mail message to you last Thursday 9/30 related to the City’s vaccine mandate, the City sent an Employee Notification which appeared to be at odds with what the City had previously communicated to MEA regarding the City’s revised deadline of December 1st for all employees to be vaccinated […]
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