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The Triennial event for ACSS Elections and Policy Changes
Newly re-elected CalPERS Board Member J.J. Jelincic will be addressing Sacramento-area state supervisors and managers this coming Wednesday, October 30th:
Community Colleges Building 1102 Q Street, 3rd Floor Sacramento, CA 95814
Mr. Jelincic will be discussing San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's newest round of pension attacks and taking your questions.
Attendance and dinner are free for current and potential ACSS members who RSVP to carol.rogersACSS@gmail.com by October 28th. Space is limited, RSVP now to lock in your spot!
J.J. Jelincic has a long history of fighting for state employees. He was elected to serve as president of the California State Employee Association for two consecutive terms beginning in 2003 and has been an investment officer for CalPERS since 1986.
After Mayor Chuck Reed and his cohorts filed papers to get a new constitution-amending pension attack on the ballot, CalPERS took a moment to weigh in on this latest round of attacks against state and local public employees.
CalPERS has pledged to uphold their responsibilities as defined in both the U.S. and California Constitutions, and to continue supporting and defending the rights that were promised to public employees.
CalPERS' official statement concluded with a call on legislators to find a solution that improves retirement security for all Californians, not remove it from those who have earned it.
Read the full statement at CalPERS.ca.gov
Under the guise of protecting public services, several California mayors have proposed altering California's constitution to allow state and local administrators to gut pension benefits for current employees.
The CSEA Foundation was established in 1985 as a tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation committed to providing college scholarships to children, spouses, and grandchildren of members of CSEA affiliates, including ACSS.
In 2013 the CSEA Foundation awarded six scholarships of $1,100 to help state employees' children go to college.
Take a moment to learn more about the CSEA Foundation and find out how your tax-exempt donation can help educate more Californians.
Your ACSS received notice that the California Department of Public Health has implemented a new policy re: Incompatible Outside Employment and Activities.
Per the notice "outside employment is defined as any services performed by an employee on his or her own time, during other than normal working hours, for which he or she may receive any form of compensation that exceeds $420 per year."
If you have reason to believe that your rights are being violated with this new policy, please contact ACSS Senior Labor Relations Specialist Nellie D. Lynn at nylnn@calcsea.org
Keep an eye on your mailbox for the newest edition of ACSS Quarterly, featuring one member's story of how he fought back against bad management with ACSS' help.
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.
Want to join the fight for better pay and benefits for state supervisors and managers?
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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.
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