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Posted on 03/13/2015 1:22:50 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Ballots were mailed out this week to more than 15,000 San Bernardino, Calif., county, city and agency employees to vote in an election for Teamsters representation. The workers, who are members of the San Bernardino Public Employees Association (SBPEA), will have the opportunity to vote in favor of affiliating with the Teamsters. The workers reached out to the union seeking strong representation.
“I’m voting yes for the Teamsters and I encourage my co-workers to do the same. We need improvements and strong representation in future negotiations,” said Luis Aguilar, an employee with the county’s Transitional Assistance Department, which administers public support programs.
“I am looking forward to joining the Teamsters. I work two jobs and I am a Teamster member at UPS. I know the benefits and strength the Teamsters can bring to our workplace,” said Andrew Gomez, a county employee.
The more than 15,000 workers provide vital services to the public, working at hospitals, in public works and public health services departments, police departments and in dozens of other public positions.
Ballots will be counted on April 14 in San Bernardino. “We’re excited to work with San Bernardino public employees in securing them the powerful representation that the Teamsters have to offer,” said Randy Cammack, President of Teamsters Joint Council 42 in Pomona, Calif. “More California public employees and workers who want a strong voice on the job are voting to become members of the Teamsters every day.”
The Teamsters Union has been successful in winning wage and benefit gains for the 14,000 members of Local 2010 employed at the University of California. The union also represents employees of police and fire departments across the state, as well as teaching assistants in Los Angeles public schools. There are more than 260,000 public employees nationwide who are Teamster members.
Teamsters Joint Council 42 is the parent body of 22 Teamster local unions in Southern California and other areas of the West, with more than 200,000 working Teamsters and retirees.
Teamsters have no problem taking your money
The county residents, if they had any sense at all, need to reach out to the county and squelch this. Perhaps they need to trim the numbers of these prospective truck drivers.
What money? San Bernardino is bankrupt, talk about beating a dead horse!
There should be NO public employee unions, NONE. They are simply means to re-direct money to the elected officials who bargain with them.
The next Bankruptcy will be real bad for these folks if they do this.
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The Teamsters just need a good slogan, like “Hope and Change”.
Come on, public employees of San Bernardino County, YOU KNOW THE FINANCES! There's nothing left. You've taken EVERYTHING. There's no money for raises, there's no money to pay back CalPERS for their loses in the stock market back in the 2000’s, there's nothing.
All that union representation will net you is money out of your paycheck and into the hands of Teamsters. That's it. And any ‘strong’ negotiations will just tip the county into bankruptcy and after Stockton, that will mean putting your retirements on the table SIDE BY SIDE with all other claimants for money.
Go ahead, make a suicide pact, the Teamsters will laugh even harder taking your money straight to the Democrats.
I don't care if they are a union or not. But every single one should be an at will employee utterly subject to the whims of the county board and their budget. And there should be zero impact on a future budget; you can't promise benefits or anything for a future board budget, as that is a decision for THAT board to make if they wish to continue with the same compensation or cut it out entirely.
Really, that's the issue, not employees joining unions, but employment contracts superseding county budgets and that's why San Bernardino is in such a financial mess right now.
“There should be NO public employee unions, NONE. They are simply means to re-direct money to the elected officials who bargain with them.”
worth repeating
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