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Attention
City
Employees:
Local 9479 is continuing a
membership drive for the City Employees of
Dallas
. It is very important for the City
workers to understand the benefits of being a member of the
North Texas
Association of Public Employees. The
Association has been here for over seven years, and has represented over
four hundred employees through the grievance procedure. We have won many
grievances; appeals and accident review board hearings for our members some
with full back pay.
We have overturned unjust termination’s, reduced suspensions, corrected
pay shortages, stopped harassment, and many other issues that affect our
members every day. We have two representatives working in our office for our
members. They work from
10am
to
2pm
Monday through Thursday. They can be
reached at the number listed below.
During
our membership drive we have heard from many members that SEIU has made
outrageous and misleading promises to city employees of a dollar per hour
raise. City employees need to be aware of these false promises. Ask the
Probation Officers in
San Antonio
about these promises. The
Texas
Association of Public Employees (USW)
now represents these employees. Ask SEIU if they will represent you in the
grievance and appeal procedure. This is a basic service provided by all
labor organizations.
Through
our current membership drive we need to strengthen our membership for the
upcoming 2010 budget hearings. A strong membership will have a positive
impact and results on these hearings. It will be an uphill struggle to avoid
layoffs, but with a strong local we will succeed.
Sign
a card, and join a real labor organization that will fight for you every
day. James Crow will be visiting the work-sites to talk to you. He can be
reached at the number listed below. Come to the next union meeting and hear
our plans for the future.
Meetings
are at
6:00 P.M.
on the second Thursday of every
month at
1408 N. Washington Ave. Suite 202
,
Dallas
,
Texas
.
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Posted
July 16th, 2009
ARE YOU TIRED OF THE CUTS CIVILIAN
EMPLOYEES TAKE TO BALANCE THE BUDGET EVERY YEAR?
Steelworker
Christopher Head's Address to Council
Honorable
Mayor, Council Members, and fellow Citizens of Dallas, I am here to tell you
that the Mayor’s plan to layoff almost 800 employees is nothing short of
Sabotage. Anyone with common
sense can tell you that a work force already stretched so thin from the last
three rounds of
RIF
and layoffs will collapse.
On
Monday [the inauguration], the Mayor alleged that this was foresight, but
eliminating 13% of the workforce and expecting it to succeed is nothing
short of delusional.
Fellow
Tax Paying Citizens of Dallas you have been hoodwinked. The Mayor implied
that there would be 200 new beat cops for little to no cost.
That was a lie.
Every
officer is fiscally worth two civilian employees. When council says that
they will not raise taxes, that money has to come from somewhere.
That cost has and will come from our much battered City services.
I say battered because we have done nothing but lose our benefits and
pay for the last 8 years and only had our work loads double through
RIF
, layoffs, and an ever growing City population.
Mayor you spoke of optimism on Monday [the
inauguration] as well. Where’s
the optimism in your 800 layoff plan. Eliminating
the income of several hundred hard working Citizens of Dallas.
How
is the City going to be 200 police officers safer when all they will be
protecting is a cubical that once officed a half priced, non-armed,
professional Civil servant.
How
are we to have the finest City you spoke of when our parks pale in
comparison to the suburbs and our Arts centers are under funded and reduced
to less than skeleton crews?
Fellow
taxpaying Citizens of Dallas, I offer solutions:
·
Pay cuts for all managerial staff level L and above,
because they can afford it after unethically hording the lion’s share of
merit increases
·
Spending freeze for the next 6-12 months, especially
on frivolous items such as GPS systems on trash trucks and jogging trail
lights on
White
Rock
Lake
·
A moratorium and enforcement of tax incentive
districts to produce revenue
·
Proper tax evaluations on Commercial property and
Mansions like those on
Swiss Avenue
I
invite the Council to attend a rally of City Employees at noon at City Hall
Plaza. You will find people not
only wishing to save their jobs, but Citizens trying to secure the
excellence of serving their fellow Citizens of Dallas.
(Ed.
Notes: This is apparently the June 24th address that caused Councilmember Caraway
get so...... testy. See the story below for the link to watch this address
and Caraway's response)
Posted
July 14th, 2009
Recent Council Meeting
Several of our members stood up to be
counted at the June 24th Council meeting. Want to hear what they said?
Click on the link below and go to minute 13.45 and watch Chris Head and
Mary Hassan speak before council, keep watching until 24.0, apparently
Councilman Caraway had a bit of a melt down. After which please forward
and call your councilman and ask about the points they brought up.
After viewing, please
tell your co-workers, friends and family and encourage everyone to
call their Dallas councilman and ask about the points brought up
by our members.
Posted 07-09-09
Pssst......
Make sure you check back
here Monday for some interesting emails we dug out of our archives about
the SEIU. They make for interesting reading in light of the recent
events that occurred in the Sanitation Department this week.
Posted 07-09-09
