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SEIU Local 1000 Scores Furlough Victory

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SEIU Local 1000 scores a Furlough Victory!

State fund insurance workers will Get back pay and interest for the furlough days taken ruled Superior Court Judge Charlotte Walter Woolard today.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger imposed mandatory furloughs on nearly all State workers earlier this year, SEIU Local 1000 filed five cases on the furlough issues and four are yet to be decided.

SEIU claimed furloughs would amount to a cutback of staff, State Fund employees are exempted from ” hiring freezes and staff cutbacks” in the states Insurance Code ruled Judge Wollard.

State officials would not say if they planned on appealing the ruling.

City of Los Angeles workers will not be affected by today’s ruling as it does not cover any employees outside of the State workers compensation Fund, the City of Los Angeles is self insured for workers compensation and is operated by LA city employees in the Personnel Department.

Executive employee relations committee Special Meeting on furloughs and ERIP

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If this isn’t the agenda of all agendas, Tuesday the most important group of people in city politics will get legal advice on overturning the furloughs and ending or accepting ERIP among other issues.

EXECUTIVE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS COMMITTEE
SPECIAL MEETING
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 at 8:00 A.M.
COUNCIL CHAMBER CONFERENCE ROOM 340, CITY HALL
200 NORTH MAIN STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
Section 4.870e (3) LAAC

Members: Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Mayor

Eric Garcetti, President of the Council
Jan Perry, President Pro Tempore
Bernard C. Parks, Chair, Budget and Finance Committee
Dennis P. Zine, Chair, Personnel Committee
(Any interested Council Member may attend)
City
Management
Representative: Miguel A. Santana, City Administrative Officer
AGENDA

  1. Public Comment
[NOTE: Agenda items to be considered in Executive (Closed) Session.]

The City Attorney requests Closed Session pursuant to Government Code Sections 54956.9(a) and/or (b) to allow the Committee to confer with its legal counsel subject to the attorney/client privilege on the following matters:

2. Legal Advice Relative to Status of Tentative Agreement with the Coalition of City Unions, Including the Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERIP)


3. Legal Advice Relative to Furloughs


Closed Session: Conference with Labor Negotiator / City Management Representation, or Designee, (pursuant to California Government Code § 54957.6) concerning consultations and discussions with representatives of the relevant employee organizations regarding:

4. Status Report and Instructions to Negotiators on Sworn Negotiations

5. Memorandum of Understanding Amendment for Fire Chief Officers


City of Los Angeles Prepares for Layoffs Erip R.I.P. & Furloughs Ruled Illegal

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Los Angeles Prepares for Layoffs Erip R.I.P.

With the very real possibility of furloughs getting rescinded after a federal appeals judge ruled unconstitutional the Furlough plan implemented by Prince George County.

General Managers are now tasked with making new financial assumptions or resorting to previous layoff lists established to meet the current budgets savings.

Departments have made assumptions on personnel prior to the ERIP savings, it is unknown if there will be additional names and classifications posted to this list and if departments will be forced to generate new lists of classifications to notify for layoffs.  These Layoff Lists are available for download in the Forums section   for most departments.

Laying off employees would start at the top and work it’s way down, since the bumping rights of senior workers would take effect. Seniority will pay off for many workers who will see vacancies at the top open up with a normal attrition rate of workers retiring and with the layoffs. Layoff Process per classification takes nearly 6 months.

Workers with less then 1 year of service could be in jeopardy if there classification is chosen for layoffs, but then Proprietary departments may choose to absorb the best candidates from those laid off as seniority and proprietary hiring are not mutually inclusive. Proprietary departments will still maintain the right to review personnel folders of candidates from what we have learned unlike other city departments.

ERIP, R.I.P.   SEIU has sent out a desperate email to it’s members acknowledging the pending demise of the ERIP plan, you might remember there previous email clearly stated everything was fine and the Mayor CAO Council LACERS and Santa Claus were to blame for the mistakes, possibly misleading there members to hide the fact ERIP was so flawed and destined to fail or bankrupt LACERS.

If SEIU was so wrong on the state of the ERIP, and the outrage from it’s members could they actually publicly support a new Vote with individual options to select on how people would like to “share the sacrifice” run by the city clerk without there biased voting form and misleading propaganda?

We must work together on these issues we must have the facts and we must be allowed a free vote untarnished by the manipulation of the unions or the city.

Council should make a motion calling for the city clerk to prepare voting materials for all vested city employees clearly explaining the options and allowing the members to have a Real Vote on what our future holds.

If all members were given a voice we could actually stomach the sacrifices that lay ahead for us.

LAPD Furloughs, ERIP Crashes, LAFD Smolders Council Takes Vacation.

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Fire Stations browned out, LAPD officers Furloughed and Civilian workers salary slashed, what next for Los Angeles?

LAFD & LAPD are in the latest battle over cuts and benefits and it keeps getting worse.

LA Times printed a storyon the pitfalls of the early retirement package and the growing budget issues.  Looks like SEUI local 721′s email campaign assuring people all was well seems to have only gotten to it’s membership because Council, the Mayors Office, Lacers and everyone else seem to accept the reality Early Retirement as written with the golden parachutes is not going to make it out of it’s first vote in council.

Excluding the Michael Jackson memorial the Council has given away over $500,000.00 this year alone on Special Event Fee Waivers seems everyone is sharing the sacrifice except the people having special events at taxpayer expense.

EAA Membership is still the only civilian group subject to mandatory furloughs while everyone else is allowed to wait on the sidelines for months. Critics have suggested that this was a vindictive action taken specifically to target MOU 08 membership which is scheduled to vote on decertifying and joining SEIU, who last we heard still says they have a deal and the CAO, Council, Mayor, Lacers, and everyone else is wrong. Looks like they just want to take their ball and go home it seems no one told them the game is about more then them yet. 

Zuma Dogg is running for City Council Everyone in CD2 that wants change keep an eye on him he might pull this off with Voter revolt and anger towards the same old situation in City Hall.His Blog is here

ERIP is in serious danger of falling apart simply because it doesn’t add up, SEIU and the Coalition of city unions Forced a vote prior to releasing any financial details on the plan, turns out some bargaining committee members didn’t get the memo and decided to e-mail assurances the plan was solid and it Turns out they had their own Study numbers they didn’t share with the membership at large PRIOR to voting.

 Layoffs are now inevitableas the Early Retirement Scam becomes known and other departments begin to look at there sacrifice, I said it when LAFD began there brownouts the numbers to save 39 million were big the numbers to save LAPD’s 130 million are HUGE!

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