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In the meantime, feel free to browse through last quarter's issue on our news page.
Your ACSS met with newly confirmed Secretary of CalGovOpps Marybel Batjer to discuss the longstanding issue of salary compaction - the phenomenon in which state supervisors and managers often make less than those they supervise - and the State's plans to correct it.
The mission of CalGovOps is to "improve management and accountability of government programs, increase efficiency, and promote better and more coordinated operation decisions."
Secretary Batjer requested additional information from ACSS on compaction, particularly on the most egregiously underpaid supervisory and management classifications.
ACSS has prioritized fixing salary compaction, and has built a broad base of bi-partisan support for the issue. Our anti-compaction bill, SB 216, enjoyed unanimous support from both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate and Assembly. SB 216 is currently being held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee's suspense file and should be reactivated for review in 2014.
In the meantime, ACSS will continue to meet with the Administration to pursue alternate methods of resolving the State's lack of support for its most skilled and dedicated employees.
Meet one of the five winners of our Kindle tablet computer sweepstakes, Linda Maxwell.
Ms. Maxwell is an Accounting Administrator I with the Department of Child Support Services.
Linda has been a supervisor at DCSS for years but was told that supervisors didn't have the right to representation.
Luckily, Linda recently found out that California law guarantees state supervisors, managers, and confidential employees the right to representation and she joined ACSS.
Now Linda is not only part of California's largest organization dedicated to fighting for better benefits and pay for supervisors, she's also now the proud owner of a brand new 7" Kindle Fire HD tablet computer.
Congrats, Linda!
Stay tuned to see the remaining winners of our sweepstakes in the coming weeks.
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ACSS has officially endorsed Jose Solorio (at left with ACSS President Arlene Espinoza) for Senate District 34.
Mr. Solorio, a former California Assemblymember and current Rancho Santiago Community College Trustee, recently addressed a packed room at the ACSS Q3 board meeting in Costa Mesa.
As the next senator for District 34, Mr. Solorio has pledged to work with ACSS to correct the State's longstanding neglect of its supervisors, managers, and confidential employees.
The newly redrawn District 34 includes all or parts of the communities of Anaheim, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Long Beach, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Santa Ana, Seal Beach and Westminster.
ACSS has been fighting for holiday pay equity for state supervisors, managers, and confidential employees since the inequity was created in 2010.
In 2010 the rank and file union MOUs established "premium holidays." Because these premium holidays are only in the MOUs and not statute, excluded employees do not receive the additional compensation awarded to the employees they supervise.
Though ACSS has requested that CalHR correct this inequity on multiple occasions since 2010, to date the agency responsible for properly compensating the state's most dedicated and skilled workers has failed to do so. As part of our continuing mission to correct salary compaction and pay inquity, ACSS again requested that CalHR correct this inequity in July 2013. CalHR has yet to implement a fix for this problem.
Have you been impacted by the premium holiday pay gap? Share your story with ACSS Senior Labor Relations Representative Nellie D. Lynn at nlynn@calcsea.org so she can relay it to CalHR as we prepare to meet again on this important issue.
Meet one of the five winners of our Kindle tablet computer sweepstakes, Victor Wells.
Mr. Wells (seen at left receiving his Kindle from ACSS Chapter 511 President Maria Suarez) is a Corporation Examiner IV with the newly formed Department of Business Oversight (formerly the Department of Corporations.)
Victor is a 10-year veteran of state service and only recently promoted to a supervisory position. As a new supervisor, Victor said he "knew it was important to have the protection and access to representational services that ACSS provides."
Mr. Wells said his mind was made up to join when he discovered that his ACSS membership fees are far less than his union dues were.
Now Victor not only has protection during any rough patches that may arise during his career, he's also now the proud owner of a brand new 7" Kindle Fire HD tablet computer.
Congrats, Victor!
Stay tuned to see the other winners of our sweepstakes in the coming weeks.
Want to join the state's largest and most experienced organization dedicated to protecting the careers of state supervisors and managers?
It's a moment we hope to never have to deal with in our careers - sitting in a witness stand and fighting against an injustice committed by our employer.
The reality is that a violation of your rights could happen at any time and ACSS members have the right to professional representation on matters like rejection on probation, EEO investigations, out-of-class grievances, and much more.
As CDCR prepares for Wave 4 of its layoff plan, it will be offering a series of informational meetings for potentially impacted employees.
Affected employees should have received SROA letters no later than September 13th.
Additional information is available at CDCR's Layoff Resources page.
Meet one of the five winners of our Kindle tablet computer sweepstakes, Francine Davies.
Ms. Davies is a Staff Services Manager I with the Department of Consumer Affairs. Though she has a great relationship with her current boss, Francine had been thinking about joining ACSS for a while to take advantage of great benefits like Purchasing Power.
Francine told us that she "figured it couldn't hurt to join" during the sweepstakes. Looks like she was right, because she's now the proud owner of a brand new 7" Kindle Fire HD tablet computer.
Congrats, Francine!
Stay tuned to see the other four winners of our sweepstakes in the coming weeks.
In a bid to retain federal funding for California's transit systems, Gov. Brown is expected to soon sign an emergency bill to exempt state transit workers from his pension reform program.
Assembly Bill 1222, authored by Assemblymembers Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento) and Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), will exempt mass transit workers from Gov. Brown's California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA). If the Legislature and Governor fail to pass AB 1222, California stands to lose $1.6 billion in federal grant funding for 2013 alone.
Due to the time-sensitive nature of the situation AB 1222 has been introduced as an "urgency" measure. AB 1222 needs two-thirds support in the Assembly and Senate, as well as Gov. Brown's signature, to take effect immediately.
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