Updated March 2, 2010 The following is a list of the 68 non-General Fund departments and agencies included in the Judge Frank Roesch's final judgment overturning furloughs and awarding back pay. Administrative Hearings Office Aging Department Air Resources Board Alcohol and Drug Programs Department Alcoholic Beverage Control Department Arts Council Attorney General’s Office Boating and Waterways Department Business, Transportation and Housing Agency California Children and Families Commission (First 5 California)
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Updated Feb. 26, 2010 An Alameda County judge ordered back pay and an immediate end to furloughs for about 53,000 Local 1000-represented workers whose salaries are drawn from sources outside the state’s General Fund. In his Feb. 25 order Judge Frank Roesch told the state to "immediately pay all employees of respondent departments and agencies their full salary without any reductions … and cease and desist the furlough of such employees."
Updated Feb. 26, 2010 1. What about state employees that work in General Fund agencies? What is Local 1000 doing for us? Local 1000 is fighting to end furloughs for all Local 1000-represented employees.—including those in General Fund agencies. We have five other furlough challenges through the courts and at PERB. Read the summary of the five challenges >>
Updated Feb. 26, 2010 Here are summaries of the five challenges: Furlough plan unconstitutional This lawsuit, on appeal after a Sacramento judge sided with the governor in January of 2009, asserts that the governor’s executive order violates the state constitution and various California statutes. The court has asked both sides to file additional legal briefs in the case; a decision is not expected before this summer.
Updated Feb. 24, 2010 Your union contract contains hundreds of provisions designed to protect your rights. Article 14.8 - Contracting Out, protects our jobs from being outsourced. This Article entitles Local 1000 to meet and confer with departments who contract out, to mitigate or avoid the need for that contracting.
Updated Feb. 23, 2010 Gov. Schwarzenegger is floating some bizarre and possibly illegal proposals to save money by turning large parts of the prison system over to private companies, including outsourcing thousands of inmates to Mexico. Local 1000 has joined a growing coalition of law enforcement, civil rights and crime-victim groups in opposing the experiment.
Updated Feb. 22, 2010 Local 1000 members are continuing their three-year campaign to expose waste through overpriced private vendor contracts on several fronts. “We will keep fighting to show how much taxpayer money California is wasting on contracts for work that can be done at a substantially lower cost by state employees,” Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker said. “This is about transparency in government. This is about showing taxpayers how their money is being spent. This is about increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of state government by shining a light on the contract process.”
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