Online Voting for MEA Officers is Now Open!
Electronic voting for MEA’s Officer election is now open via MEA’s website! Voting will continue through October 24th in order to ensure that members have ample time to vote. The strength of MEA depends on the active involvement of members like you, and voting in MEA elections is an important aspect of Union participation…so please cast your vote today! Please click here to […]
Read more >>MEA takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and challenges you to donate a few hours of your leave time!
MEA’s leadership and staff were recently presented with the ALS challenge. We took the challenge up and also donated $500 to the cause in honor of MEA member and City employee, Betty Heilig, who has been diagnosed with ALS. MEA is encouraging all of our represented employees to go to our catastrophic leave page and donate a few hours of […]
Read more >>San Diego People’s Climate March
Dear MEA Members, Have you heard?! On September 21st people from around the nation and the world will come together in an unprecedented citizen mobilization for the People’s Climate March in New York City. As world leaders meet at the United Nations climate change summit, hundreds of thousands of marchers will demand the world we know is within our reach: a world with […]
Read more >>DSD LMC Update
The DSD LMC met on August 19, 2014 and discussed the following agenda items: 1. Elevator/Maintenance Issues: The Elevator outage will hopefully be resolved within the week. As of Tuesday, 8/26/14, two elevators are up and running. The outage was caused by a SDG&E power surge that affected multiple buildings in the downtown area. It was this surge that is […]
Read more >>LIBROS Fundraising Assistance
A few of our MEA-represented colleagues in the Library Department are involved in LIBROS, an organization dedicated to the improvement of library and information services for Spanish-speaking people in San Diego. They asked us to publish the following letter to reach out to our membership about an important fundraising effort. Thank you for your consideration! August 25, 2014 To Whom […]
Read more >>Notice of MEA Officer Election
It is time once again for Officer elections at MEA. Article V of MEA’s Bylaws details the rules that govern our Union’s elections. Those rules call for the announcement of procedures to be used to nominate Officer candidates. If you qualify and would like to run for office, please stop by or contact MEA at 619.264.6632 and we will send […]
Read more >>Changes Coming to Your Paycheck after July 1, 2014
This is just a reminder that the second year of our current labor contract for MEA-represented employees takes effect on July 1, 2014. For most MEA-represented employees, this means: The end of mandatory furlough. The remaining 26 hours of mandatory furlough will be eliminated, meaning the corresponding pay deduct (equal to about 1.4% of salary) that went along with it […]
Read more >>MEA’s General Membership Meeting is July 17th!
All MEA members and their families are invited to join us on Thursday, July 17th for our annual General Membership Meeting at the Balboa Park Club. We have a great evening planned with a drawing to win great prizes, a delicious Mexican dinner and some great speakers including California Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins. Doors open at 5pm Dinner at 5:30pm […]
Read more >>DSD LMC Update
Your DSD LMC met on Tuesday, May 20th and discussed the following items: 1. HVAC System/Air Quality: The building vents were cleaned in April. Air quality tests were done on the 3rd floor during the week of May 12-16. Results from the tests are expected in 4-6 weeks. 2. PNED/DSD Split: As of July 1, 2014, PN&ED and DSD will be officially […]
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