Attention DSD Plan Review Specialists
At the DSD Labor-Management Committee meeting on Tuesday, September 14th, your DSD management brought forth a proposal to restructure counter services in the department. MEA requested a written description of the proposal, along with an implementation plan in order to identify any issues that might trigger the meet and confer process. DSD management agreed to provide the documents for MEA […]
Read more >>Ratification Vote on Managed Competition Guide Set for September 21
MEA’s negotiating team has reached a tentative agreement with the City on a managed competition implementation guide. MEA negotiators worked with the City for more than three years before reaching an agreement earlier this summer. Along the way, MEA successfully litigated an impasse in the negotiations, causing an Administrative Law Judge to find that the City had bargained in bad […]
Read more >>The Avitha Rafael Memorial Walk
Please join members of our union family at the Avitha Rafael Memorial Walk on Saturday, October 2nd in Pacific Beach. Funds raised from the event will go directly into a trust account for Avitha’s son, Damien Jopanda. For more information and to complete the registration form, please download the flyer to the right. We hope that you will be able […]
Read more >>Vote “No” in Upcoming DROP Benefit Election!
This week you will likely receive “Benefits Election” materials from SDCERS related to proposed changes to the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) for all unclassified and unrepresented employees, as well as all employees represented by the San Diego Police Officers Association (POA) and AFSCME Local 127. Each proposed change to DROP is detrimental to the affected employees: (1) DROP is eliminated altogether […]
Read more >>Purchase of Service Credit Update
Please take a moment to read Ann Smith’s letter to the SDCERS Purchase of Service Credit (PSC) Ad Hoc Committee dated September 1st. You can download the letter by clicking on the link to the right. MEA is also encouraging members to attend the next PSC Ad Hoc Committee on Thursday, September 16th from 9:30am to 11:30am at the Balboa […]
Read more >>Important Update/Letter from Ann Smith Regarding Purchase of Service Credits
Please see the attached letter from Ann Smith that was delivered to SDCERS and City officials on Wednesday afternoon. The letter outlines MEA’s position on the purchase of service credit issue that will be discussed by the full SDCERS Board next Friday, August 20 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at 401 West A Street, Third Floor. Thank you to those who attended the SDCERS Committee […]
Read more >>Special Salary Adjustments, New Classes and Title Changes. DEADLINE: Friday, August 27, 2010
The City Charter provides that unions or departments may bring forward requests for special salary adjustments, new classes and title changes to the Civil Service Commission. In accordance with MEA’s current MOU which will expire on June 30, 2011, MEA may bring such requests to the Commission during the current fiscal year in anticipation of having any changes recommended by […]
Read more >>Purchase of Service Credits and How it Might Affect You
You have likely seen recent media coverage about the Fourth District Court of Appeal’s decision issued on June 7th affirming a trial court decision related to purchased service credits. Here is the background on the case and an overview of what it means as well as when/how its consequences will likely be felt. In October and November 2007, on the advice […]
Read more >>President’s Message, Third Quarter of 2010
On July 1, Carl DeMaio officially threw in the towel on his misguided and misleading outsourcing ballot initiative. DeMaio’s failure gives San Diegans and City employees hope that we might be nearing the end of a painful era of extreme, sometimes hateful, political rhetoric that has seemed to dominate the San Diego political debate for the last several years. For […]
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