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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!
ABC 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.
ABC needs 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
Investigators to visit the Capitol every week – for a year! How many
times has the CASI 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. 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).
Difficult working
hours, lots of undercover work, and substandard pay make staying with
the department a difficult proposition. There is no reason for this.
ABC is specially funded by
fees,
P.O.C. will meet with all the stakeholders in the industry and
work out a funding source for law enforcement employees. Industry and
stakeholders back you.
P.O.C. will help you put it together. CAUSE /
CSLEA actually kicked two ABC Presidents off the union board for trying
to help their members!
ABC has a mission,
but it is not living up to its potential. Investigators could work
every day of the year, year round, and never see all your licensees.
That is not enforcement. For the size of the State ABC should have two
or three times as many investigators as it does now. We can make that
argument at the State Capitol and win and it will help boost salary
levels.
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 department increase fees and penalties to find funding sources
for ABC Investigators. Who is going to stand against the ABC
Investigators 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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