Contract Negotions, Part I
We credit a source for this, we weren't actually there.
The union wants what CPD is asking for, which includes a 24% pay increase over 4 years, less healthcare costs out of pocket, and an annual stipend in lieu of the lifting of residency requirement. We personall prefer the lifting of the residency requirement so we can be released from the tax-thirsty grasp of this godforsaken shithole, but we digress.
Also up for discussion are duty availability pay for all PCOs (we like); guidelines for when mandatory OT can be invoked by management, which would not include the staff shortages that are inherent in a public safety outfit that's poorly staffed to begin with; and specific rules which govern voluntary overtime. That's to so more clarification about does straight seniority 1st/2nd RDO or "my watch" get called first.
As for those surveys, rotating-seniority mandatory OT which rotates among everyone will stay. It was a close vote, but it won. Annual seniority will be fixed in the future, and the subject of pay increases was the sweeping main concern among PCOs, although OJT, wage compression (Read: It takes me a shorter time to reach top pay), and detail positions were also major concerns among pcos.
Disappointing turnout, though. Out of roughly 400 PCOs and ACOs, only 175 surveys were turned in. If you didn't turn one in (we did), and you don't speak up formally before the contract is ratified (you have at least 2 years), then feel free to STFU when something you dread stays in place or becomes policy. In fact, please STFU if such will be the case.
Open discussion, that is all for now.
Labels: Contract, Pipe dreams
posted by CPDDispatch @ 12:05 AM
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State does it, why can't we?
With straight 8-hour days (which the city seems to be averse to moving from) still intact, it's because for several calendar weeks (Sunday-Saturday) during the year we'd be working only 4 days in a calendar week, which King Richie just will have none of. There'd be weeks where we worked 6 days in the calendar week, but can you imagine how many people at our job would be livid about not getting paid overtime for that extra day, without understanding or caring that it's made up for during another week?
We're intrigued, though, what state departments do this? It's the first we've heard of it, but we assume they're less burned out than we are as a whole.
Check the F.O.P. proposal's they have a 6/3 calendar on their.
Also, to change the shifts like that would require, more bodies. Since this place has an allergy to hiring people.......I guess it will stay the way it is
I don't remember any of this staffing mess when we had the power watches. Mandatory overtime was nonexistent back then. Thank you for fucking that up, Marista.
by 2004 even the power watches were understaffed and they were unable to provide proper reliefs
which is why they existed in the 1st place. lack of proper staffing is the disease. the rest of the problems are just symptoms
and no matter how many cures are attempted; rearranging watches,
excessive punishment for ci's,
changing the percentages on the
furlough distributions,cancelling
lunches and breaks,mandatory ot when there are not enough volunteers even though we have record ot payouts, cancelling 4th
of july rdo's for some watches for the 4th? year in a row,
harassing people for legitimate use of sick time,telling us earned comp time is limited to 450 hrs a month per watch and requests will be denied if a watch has to hire back to staff the watch to full capacity even though no watch
can start the day fully staffed
without volunteers, have i missed
any?? please add the the list,
the disease still thrives.
22:55:
Well said. Don't forget about how administration continues to take PCO1s and PCO2s off the operations floor to work in "detailed" positions, so even though these people are no longer on the roster of bodies to actually staff the OPS floor, city hall still considers them part of the "operations budget" and therefore they believe we have more working personnel than we actually do. Staffing shortage? What staffing shortage?? What a joke.
Well , how long before we can get switched over to teamsters? Supervisors won the battle....they are offically represented by teamsters.
and detailed personnel are not allowed to work any ot, voluntary
or mandatory, which would relieve
some of the operations floor staffing burden.
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