Status of Efforts to become a Union

Back on July 14^th, 2010, when we had our 028 meeting, the result was the election of the ‘028 Collective Bargaining Research Committee’ with Steve Souza as the head of the committee.

One thing they did was to insure that no members came from the DPPA Board, except for Steve Souza who had just joined and did not know most of the history of DPPA. Steve also did not get a chance to vote on the committee.

The committee had to decide what was going on the ballot when we petitioned Labor Relations for a vote on 028 Representation. The committee had many meetings which I don’t know about except for August 11^th, 2010. In that meeting they asked DPPA 28 questions that they thought were important to having DPPA being a Recognized Employee Organization (REO). I went and gave them written answers and found out that they had scheduled October 6^th, 2010 to be done and come before the DPPA Board to tell us what they had found out.

Then the DPPA Board would have two months before the December 1^st – December 20^th, 2010 period in which 028 could go and petition Labor Relations for a vote to take place between December 1^st and April 10^th to determine whether 028 would be unionized. Then if 028 decided that their unit should be a REO, 028 will have to get prepared to negotiate the new contract to be in effect July of 2011.

You will be all contacted by the State Agency that holds the election probably in January 2011.