POC / Criminal Investigators

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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!  

P.O.C. / Criminal Investigators Investigators are some the most highly trained Peace Officers in the State.  Your counterparts at the federal, State, and local level make A LOT more money than you do.  Take a look at what some of the other State Peace Officers are earning,, some members are earning more than $200,000 with overtime. That is not a jab at other unions but rather a demonstration of how effective an all Peace Officer union can be. 

P.O.C. / Criminal Investigators members 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 – so that you can paid by the State to do union work.  If CAUSE / CSLEA used their release time appropriately, there would be more than enough State-paid time for a half-dozen Investigators to visit the Capitol every week – for a year!  How many times has the  P.O.C. / Criminal Investigators President been to the Capitol this year, who did she meet with, and who did she bring with her?

P.O.C. knows that politics is a tough game.  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).

P.O.C. will be made up of the same affiliates as before, with a few new affiliates to represent some of the larger sworn classes that were previously under represented by CAUSE / CSLEA.  As a rule, any employee class with 50 or more filled positions will be entitled to an affiliate.  The Department of Insurance Investigators have already exercised their right to form their own affiliate.  From the remaining 150 members of  POC / Criminal Investigators, the Medical Board and Division of Investigations employee classes have enough members to have their own affiliate president on the P.O.C. board.  If they choose not to exercise they will remain with  POC / Criminal Investigators.

Substandard pay make staying with any department a difficult proposition.  There is no reason for this.  Investigators in  P.O.C. / Criminal Investigators are specially funded by fees, P.O.C. will meet with all the stakeholders in your industry and work out a funding source for law enforcement employees.  P.O.C. will help you put it together. 

Investigator 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. is going to help your departments increase fees and penalties to find funding sources for ABC Investigators.  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. 

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