Status

The first item to pass along to you is that SCMA (Sacramento County Management Association) is now a union. In their election they had 459 ballots cast and 278 voted for unionization (60.6% of the vote) and only 181 voted against it (39.4%). SCMA got more than 30% of the members of Representation 050 voted in favor of having a vote to see if they support unionization back in December and then yesterday they had the final vote for SCMA. However back in December DPPA only got 61 votes, when we needed 91, so we couldn’t put the issue before Representation Unit 028. So DPPA remains a non-negotiating Employee Association.

Now the next thing is the layoffs that are going to happen starting in the next Fiscal Year. In July, it has already been decided that eight members of Representation Unit 028 will be laid off.

The Departments are:

1. Admin Services – 2


2. Dept Of Finance – 1


3. Health / Human Services – 3


4. OCIT – 2

Now in addition the Department of Labor Relation has asked OCIT and ISA to come up with 20% more cuts that are due today. This is going to mean more layoffs if the cuts are accepted.

DPPA would like to know what you think should be done to come up with the money that the County needs. You can respond to President@dppa.org and tell me if you are for:

1. Keeping the COLA, which will require people to be laid off; although the Board of Supervisors makes the final decision even though they promised to give us 2% - 5% of the Consumer Price Index for March?


2. Or give up the COLA, in last year that we have the promise, to save jobs?

We have to be aware that last year the Board of Supervisors cut our COLA without even talking to us because DPPA is non-negotiating Employee association.