Brothers & Sisters:Today, with just under sixteen hours notice you stepped up to show support for Jared, Brother Tom Harrison, the provisional Gardeners, and the entire Local 261 Public Employee membership at the Recreation and Parks Commission to support keeping our current staffing levels and, at 40 hours per week! 25 members came and sported the Orange Crush (pictured Ramon, Oscar, & Tom,) as usual and your presence was duly noted! BIG Time effort by all involved on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend WITH LESS THAN A DAY NOTICE...absolutely, unquestionably, outstanding Union work!!!
The Original Call Out from Last Night:
2009/2010 M.O.U.:
We are now moving quickly into contract negotiations (almost all other Unions extended their agreements,) your negotiations team members will be meeting with the City 4 times in February and 2 more early in March to start (check the blog.). The Committee knows the Contract is the most important thing we have by far!
Current Budget:
We have learned that RPD GM has proposed that no 261 members (including our 58 provisional Gardeners!) take a walk while SEIU unfortunately gets hit pretty hard. THE Reality is they know we have been hit hard already including at SFDPW (enough for all of us!) Now, in supplemental efforts to "even out the hit," discussions are revolving around reducing all schedules to less than 40/hr week at RPD! Put differently, a pay cut for us all. Now, in addition to our MOU talks, we clearly need to weigh in on this one, and in a united front...NO LAYOFFS FOR 261 Gardeners, Supervisors, or others!!!
SPECIAL RPD Commission Meeting City Hall 4th Floor 2:30pm: You must decide, if you support the RPD GM and want to support Brother Tom Harrison and the Department for not laying any Gardeners off. If you do, Oscar and I will be there in about 16 hours (2:30) to meet you all front & Center for Tom and all of our Union members' interests. Oh yeah, Mayor Newsom is to be there. Wear ORANGE!
If you can't help now...
Super Important
MARCH 3, 2009 at the SF Board of Supervisors during the meeting, Supervisor Alioto will be honoring along with the rest of the Board our City Stewards Adrian, Joan, Edison, Terry, Theresa, and Nikki! We'll all be there. Check out the blog for updates.
Vince Courtney
City Representative/Political Captain
Laborers' International Union, Local 261
2009/2010 M.O.U.:
We are now moving quickly into contract negotiations (almost all other Unions extended their agreements,) your negotiations team members will be meeting with the City 4 times in February and 2 more early in March to start (check the blog.). The Committee knows the Contract is the most important thing we have by far!
Current Budget:
We have learned that RPD GM has proposed that no 261 members (including our 58 provisional Gardeners!) take a walk while SEIU unfortunately gets hit pretty hard. THE Reality is they know we have been hit hard already including at SFDPW (enough for all of us!) Now, in supplemental efforts to "even out the hit," discussions are revolving around reducing all schedules to less than 40/hr week at RPD! Put differently, a pay cut for us all. Now, in addition to our MOU talks, we clearly need to weigh in on this one, and in a united front...NO LAYOFFS FOR 261 Gardeners, Supervisors, or others!!!
SPECIAL RPD Commission Meeting City Hall 4th Floor 2:30pm: You must decide, if you support the RPD GM and want to support Brother Tom Harrison and the Department for not laying any Gardeners off. If you do, Oscar and I will be there in about 16 hours (2:30) to meet you all front & Center for Tom and all of our Union members' interests. Oh yeah, Mayor Newsom is to be there. Wear ORANGE!
If you can't help now...
Super Important
MARCH 3, 2009 at the SF Board of Supervisors during the meeting, Supervisor Alioto will be honoring along with the rest of the Board our City Stewards Adrian, Joan, Edison, Terry, Theresa, and Nikki! We'll all be there. Check out the blog for updates.
Vince Courtney
City Representative/Political Captain
Laborers' International Union, Local 261
