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Peace Officers of
California 's (P.O.C.) first
commitment is to increase pay for
all Peace Officers, with
pay-parity as our ultimate priority!
Special Agents do
some of the most important law enforcement in the State, but nobody
knows. Your counterparts at the Inspector General’s Office, FBI, DEA,
ATF, and elsewhere make A LOT more money than you do.
Take a look at what
some of the other State Peace Officers are earning, That is not a jab at other
unions but rather a demonstration of how effective an
all Peace Officer union can be.
Special Agents are
among the best-trained and educated Peace Officers in the world.
Despite an increased risk of terrorism, exploding population, and ever
more sophisticate criminals DOJ ranks have atrophied in the last
10-years. How is that possible?
Special Agents need
their fair share of
release time and
dues
money to put boots on the ground at the State Capitol
with a mission to inform.
If CAUSE / CSLEA used their release time appropriately,
there would be more than enough State-paid time for a half-dozen Special
Agents to visit the Capitol every week – for a year! What has ASA
President Jim Vitko and CAUSE / CSLEA done with your release time?
P.O.C.
knows that politics is a tough game. We
have hired the State’s premier political strategists
California
Strategies and
bargaining expert
Marty
Morgenstern to represent you. They are here to help guide
us through the process and help us have an impact at the capitol. You
need
release time and
dues
money to make this work. If you do not believe how
powerful presence can be, we urge any of you to visit the Capitol with
P.O.C.,
so you can see it for yourself. There will be many advantages
to
P.O.C.
Unlike CAUSE / CSLEA,
the general membership will elect the president of
P.O.C.
P.O.C. will
publish meeting minutes and votes – prohibited at CAUSE / CSLEA. All
affiliate board members will know what the State is offering at the
bargaining table – also prohibited at CAUSE / CSLEA.
P.O.C. guarantees
each affiliate their fair share of
release time and
dues
money - while
CAUSE
/ CSLEA has over 1,000 employees in
“trusteeship” (= expelled).
Special Agents will
now have final veto authority over any candidate that
P.O.C.
considers
endorsing for Attorney General. Furthermore, Special Agents and other
affiliates can use their own association’s name for political
endorsements, prohibited at CAUSE / CSLEA. If Special Agents want to
retain their own contractors or employees in addition to
P.O.C.
– more
power to you!
Even though Special
Agents work for the Attorney General, your pay, benefits, and working
conditions are determined through the
collective bargaining process, which hinges first on an
agreement with the Governor and
then approval by a super-majority vote of each house of the
legislature. Whom do you think the Governor or the Legislature is more
likely to give a pay increase in tough times –
P.O.C. or
CAUSE / CSLEA?
P.O.C.
has identified many key goals for the new
Peace Officer only union, like dedicated funding sources
for Special Agents through fees. A fee can be assessed to any goods or
service by a simple majority vote of the legislature, like existing fees
for 911 services.
P.O.C. will identify
dedicated funding sources for the Special Agents by targeting industries
or service providers that contribute to creating the crimes/violations
that DOJ regulates. Who is going to stand against the Special Agents
when they ask for a few pennies to fight child molesters, gangs, drugs,
or fraud? The problem is CAUSE / CSLEA has not thought of it, cannot
follow through with it, and is not politically savvy enough to carry
it out.
You can be part of
the change to help
State Peace Officers gain
pay-parity:
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