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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!
Even though the
recent spate of food and drug related death and illnesses the State is
still not doing everything it can do to protect its citizens, nor is it
adequately funding enforcement positions with your department.
Food and Drug
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.
CAFDI 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 – so you can literally get 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 CAFDI President been to the Capitol this year, who did he
meet with, and who did he bring with him?
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).
Substandard pay makes
staying with any department a difficult proposition. There is no reason
for this. Investigators in CAFDI are
specially funded by assessments, and
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 department increase fees and penalties to find funding sources
for CAFDI 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. You can be part of the change to help
State Peace Officers gain
pay-parity:
 
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