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Welcome to Peace
Officers of California (P.O.C.) where the Department of Insurance (DOI) Detectives will have a seat at
the table and have guaranteed access to your new affiliate’s fair share
of
release time and
dues
money.
P.O.C.
first commitment to you will be to increase pay for
all Peace Officers, with
pay-parity as our ultimate priority!
DOI Detectives are
some the most highly trained and educated 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,, with
some members are earning more than $200,000 with overtime. That is not
intended as a remark about the effectiveness of other bargaining units
or unions but rather an indication as to how effective an
all Peace Officer union will be.
Department of
Insurance Detectives need to put 'boots-on-the-ground' at the State
Capitol with a
mission to inform:
that is why we guarantee you release time and dues money – so you can
literally get paid by the State to inform legislators about your
concerns.
If CAUSE / CSLEA
used their release time appropriately,
there would be more than enough State-paid time for a half-dozen
Detectives to visit the Capitol every week – for a year! How many times
has the CACI President been to the Capitol this year, who did she meet
with, and who did she bring with her - and where are the results?
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 our 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. will publish meeting
minutes and votes – which is not the case at CAUSE / CSLEA.
Try asking, as others have in
the past, and watch what happens!! All affiliate board members will
know what the State is offering at the bargaining table – also not the
case at CAUSE / CSLEA.
P.O.C. guarantees
each affiliate their fair share of
release time and
dues
money – and then ask yourself why it is that CAUSE /
CSLEA has over 1,000 employees in
“trusteeship” (= expelled), something that could never happen with
P.O.C..
Insurance Detectives
will now have final veto authority over any candidate that
P.O.C. considers endorsing for Insurance Commissioner.
Furthermore, DOI and other affiliates can use their own association’s
name for political endorsements, which is prohibited at CAUSE / CSLEA.
If Detectives want to retain their own contractors or employees in
addition to
P.O.C. – then do so!!
CAUSE / CSLEA is
broken. Instead of giving Detectives at the DOI a voice on their board
they have shoved you into a catch-all board affiliate, while other
groups half your size have their own representation at the CAUSE / CSLEA
Board level. Based upon current figures, DOI will be the 5th
largest
P.O.C. affiliate, tied
in size with the DMV Investigations, making YOU larger than at least 5
other affiliate groups!!
Difficult working
hours, lots of undercover work and substandard pay make staying with the
Department of Insurance a difficult proposition. There is no reason for
this. DOI is specially funded by assessments.
P.O.C. will meet with all
stakeholders in the
industry and work out a continued and improved source of funding for
sworn peace officer law enforcement employees. Recent signed legislation
shows there is a considerable understanding of the value to what you do.
AB 1401 is a starting point to grow from.
P.O.C.
will help you put it together.
Detective 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 to in tough times –
P.O.C. or
CAUSE / CSLEA?
You can be part of the change to help
State Peace Officers gain
pay-parity:
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