Managed Competition Ratification Update
Thank you very much to those of you who took time from your day last Tuesday to vote on the Managed Competition Guide Ratification. Nearly 600 MEA members came to the Silver Room downtown or MEA’s offices in Kearny Mesa to vote. 96% of you voted “yes” to ratify the tentative agreement recommended by your negotiating team. The agreed upon […]
Read more >>Update to DROP Benefit Election
As a follow up to an e-blast we sent a few weeks ago, MEA wants to alert its members that SDCERS (www.sdcers.org) has postponed the DROP Benefit Election at the request of the City. On September 2, MEA wrote you to advise a “NO” vote on the election (please click on the following link to read the original article https://www.sdmea.org/city/vote-no-in-upcoming-drop-benefit-election/ ). […]
Read more >>Reminder: Managed Competition Ratification Vote Tuesday
All MEA members are reminded that tomorrow, Tuesday September 21, is the ratification vote for the proposed Managed Competition guide. For more information about the vote, please see our message from last week by clicking on the following link: (here) Voting will be held at two locations: Silver Room San Diego Concourse 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. MEA Office Boardroom […]
Read more >>Purchase of Service Credit Update
MEA would like to thank everyone who took time out of their busy morning to attend and testify before the PSC Ad Hoc Committee on September 16th. SDCERS will hold one more hearing on the issue on October 1, at which time the full SDCERS Board will be voting to take action on the PSC issue. To hear MEA General […]
Read more >>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 […]
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