From: General Manager
[pbarty@peaceofficers.org] on behalf of Paul B. Barty (P.O.C. General Manager)
(Work: UTO)
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008
9:47 AM
To: Paul B. Barty (P.O.C. General
Manager) (Work: UTO)
Subject: FW: Outcome of YOUR PERB
Hearing, Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Officers,
Yesterday, Wednesday, October 22,
2008, the Public Employees Relations Board (PERB) held an informal hearing at
their office in Sacramento. The purpose of the meeting was to inquire if CAUSE / CSLEA and Peace
Officers of California (P.O.C.) would stipulate to moving forward quickly by holding
the severance election (which more than half of you requested) to ratify the
creation of a new Peace Officer only Union, Bargaining Unit #22.
P.O.C. was willing to move forward immediately
and hold an election. Unfortunately, CAUSE /
CSLEA would not stipulate to any matter before PERB because they wanted
an Administrative Law Judge to make the determination as to whether an election
should take place at all! Furthermore, the soonest that CAUSE / CSLEA’s attorney, Gary Messing, stated that he
could be available was January 22, 2009. Mr. Messing is, of course, very
busy defending the Safety Retirement benefits for the non-sworn membership.
It is expected that an Administrative
Hearing would consist of a 10-15 day hearing and P.O.C.
would prefer this to consist of contiguous hearings, but we anticipate
that CAUSE / CSLEA will want to have a series of
single hearings dragged out over several months to further delay the process,
if they can!
CAUSE / CSLEA has effectively delayed an election by
at least 4 to 6 months already – instead of allowing your voice to be
heard. No matter how you intend to vote, you have the right to vote NOW,
allowing YOU to decide your own future in a State-run election and to get all
of the Peace Officers to the bargaining table immediately!
Even though PERB previously determined
the majority of the Peace Officers in bargaining unit 7 (BU7) had signed
petition cards to sever their relationship with the Non-Peace Officer Members, CAUSE / CSLEA committed to spend YOUR DUE$ MONEY on
attorneys to keep you on a leash in a majority 60%+ non-sworn union.
CAUSE / CSLEA’s refusal to stipulate to any part of the
severance petition means that the PERB will have to review every class of Peace
Officer in the petition, just to make sure that they are, indeed, Peace
Officers! We fully anticipate CAUSE / CSLEA
is going to argue individually that groups included in the severance petition
are not really cops, or that they do not deserve to be represented by their own
sworn officer bargaining unit!
What does all this mean? It means
that CAUSE / CSLEA is going to delay a vote for
as long as they can, preventing a Peace Officer Only union from bargaining with
the State and impacting your ability to get better pay and benefits - all in
the hopes that they can find a legal way out – meaning less money in your
pocket, and because CAUSE / CSLEA is afraid to
allow a severance vote!
What is the difference between P.O.C. and CAUSE / CSLEA?
P.O.C. is committed to a democratic,
transparent, Peace Officer Only bargaining unit – where the President of the
union is elected and responsible to the members, and where vote records,
financial stipends and expenses are available to both the union board and its members
alike – which is not how CAUSE / CSLEA conducts
its business.
In fact, you may well ask, “How does CAUSE / CSLEA conduct its business?” Well for
starters, at the PERB hearing Barcelona’s
personal secretary took photos of P.O.C. officers,
the same intimidation tactic that they got busted for before when another CAUSE / CSLEA employee, Kobe Pizzotti, got caught by
the Sac PD taking pictures of undercover officers at a P.O.C.
meeting last year.
Then, of course, there are those slight Barcelona omissions to the members and board – like
the fact that President Barcelona actually
fouled up the Gray Davis parity contract that other unions received and then
conveniently forgot to tell anyone! CAUSE / CSLEA
had an opportunity to get YOU a contract, but they turned it down! Ask
your board member formally, in writing, and to respond in writing, about why CAUSE / CSLEA did not get a pay-parity contract under
Gray Davis. To make it easier for you, we have included the e-mail
addresses of the board members we could identify as follows:
AMVIC
– Richard Carrillo
rcarrillo@dmv.ca.gov
ASA-DOJ
– Jim
Vitko
doj_asa@verizon.net
CASI
– Shelley Bishop
shelley49@verizon.net
HPAC
– Karen
Merideth
KarenMeredith@hpac7.com
SEFFA
– Steve
Bradley
SEFFA@CSFA.NET
CACI
– Laura
Campos
Unknown
CAFDI
– Jon
Spencer
Unknown
CAFI
– Karlyne
Amaral
Unknown
FMESA – Wes
Cochran
Unknown
We encourage you
to get quick response from your board members (in writing of course!!) before
their answers start to change. Please send us a copy of your question and
your board member’s response for our PERB hearing records. We would
really love to know what the CAUSE / CSLEA board
really knows. After all, President Barcelona
would have told the board that he turned down a pay-parity deal – right
. . . , of course, . . . right???
CAUSE
/ CSLEA has already
announced through its affiliates that there is no money on the table for
anything this year. What that means is that there is no better time to
take a new bargaining team to the table since CAUSE /
CSLEA admits there is nothing to lose right now. This gives YOU
the opportunity to send who YOU want to the bargaining table right now to
represent YOU, not the non-sworn.
We at P.O.C. want to thank you for taking the time to
stay current on this issue.
Please remember
– Justice delayed, is justice denied!
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