After a long Budget and Finance committee meeting where nearly every union leader in the city paid a visit to speak before the committee the Coalition of LA City Unions principals made their way up to the Office of the CAO in response to his Letter Dated March 06, 2012 in which he stated in part We were asked …
I said it; Eric Garcetti is an idiot, and I’ll say it again. I am not your union leader polite and tactful that is Julie Butcher or any one of the polished Union speakers we parade in council chambers. I’m much more a teamsters loud blue collar steel worker type, ask Mike Hernandez he felt …
Letter from the President: Layoffs Don’t Make Sense for LA June 1, 2010 By Bob Schoonover SEIU 721 President In January we were facing a $600 million shortfall as projected by the CAO. Here in late May the ever-changing number seems to be about $100 million. The City’s adopted a budget with a bunch of …
They said it all along, We want you to give up more. They weren’t kidding. Early Retirement Savings and furlough hours weren’t enough to satisfy the Council and Mayor. LAPD Continues to hire LAFD budgeted for nearly 80 Million in overtime alone, Civilian workers will have to either give up the contract signed just last …
Same story new year. Layoffs doomsday oh but wait give up 26 furlough days for EAA Members and 16 for coalition take a pay cut and we will call it even. So So sorry to disappoint the Mayor but neither the Coalition of City Unions & SEIU, or EAA are considering anything less then a …
SEIU Claimed (1) Victory and that all MOUS approved the deal, this is still in question, and that the Early Retirement has Passed. What does this mean for the workers of the City of Los Angeles? How can this deal be passed if ALL unions have not completed their vote count? What is in store …
What do the union reps do when the membership is solidly against the agreement? Simple, They Lie. Stretch the truth? Removal of Cash Overtime has NO Exceptions per City Department as written. Special Events where the an organization pays All Costs, with NO Fee Waiver are the only way. Some people who share MOU’s are …
9-14-2009, Budget committee sends Julie Butcher and the Coalition back to dig in to there numbers to save the city an additional “50-60 Million” so ERIP can pass committee and be presented to council. 9-15-2009 12 hours later and countless sleepless hours the coalition return to the council ready to share there hard work, after …
Los Angeles Prepares for Layoffs Erip R.I.P. With the very real possibility of furloughs getting rescinded after a federal appeals judge ruled unconstitutional the Furlough plan implemented by Prince George County. General Managers are now tasked with making new financial assumptions or resorting to previous layoff lists established to meet the current budgets savings. Departments …
Fire Stations browned out, LAPD officers Furloughed and Civilian workers salary slashed, what next for Los Angeles? LAFD & LAPD are in the latest battle over cuts and benefits and it keeps getting worse. LA Times printed a storyon the pitfalls of the early retirement package and the growing budget issues. Looks like SEUI local 721′s …