Interesting stuff :
Can 4 out of 5 Civil Service Commissioners be wrong?
They were on May 22 when they gave notice of intent to:
- Violate the LA City Charter
- Thumb their nose at the LA City Contract
- Trample on the entire system of Civil Service in the U.S.A.
- Trash seniority in “temporary layoffs” (mandatory furloughs)
Commissioner John Perez understood what it means when he voted against it: “No citizen can vote away their constitutional rights. We can’t make employees bargain away their rights.”
More than 60 members of the Coalition of LA City Unions packed the Civil Service hearing on May 22, 2008 to oppose Personnel’s change to Civil Service Rule 8.7 and many testified.
Simboa Wright, SEIU 721: “I always believed the City was an equal opportunity employer. Don’t give that up.”
Commissioner John Perez: “Seniority is fundamental to Civil Service throughout the U.S...to protect public workers from the vagaries of politics.”
Victor Gordo, LIUNA 777: “Every layoff is linked to service. This rule change opens the floodgates on discrimination and takes away balance for short-term political expedience.”
Cheryl Moore, AFSCME, 31 years with the City: “This rule would hurt people like me, committed to internal changes for everybody, who could be singled out. Don’t send me out on a limb where I can fall and everything I’ve worked for could get washed away.”
Mark Fink, Operating Engineers 501: “This violates the very spirit of mutual gains which the city asked us to use and we did.”
Emma Leheny, Coalition lawyer: “The Personnel Department is asking this Commission not just to amend a Rule, which it has the authority to do, but to amend the Charter, which it does not.”
Bob Hunt, SEIU 721 General Counsel: “If the Commission enacts a meaningless rule it undermines its own credibility.”
Julie Butcher, SEIU 721: “The city already passed a balanced budget. This rule is spurious, abhorrent and violates the City charter and collective bargaining which has worked so well.”
Tell Maggie Whelan, Personnel Department General Manager at (213) 473-3470 and the Civil Service Commission at (213) 473-9107 to play by the rules:
- Charter passed by LA voters
- Contract the City signed
- U.S. Civil Service tradition.
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Rumblings urges you to call both numbers, beginning Monday, and express your concerns.
Minutes from May 8th Civil Service meeting: link
The May 22nd minutes have not posted yet.
See Thursday, May 22, 2008 post: Mayor/City management at it again for additional background on this subject.
5 comments:
Source of the flyer:
www.lacitycoalition.com
It's an 8+ MB PDF, from the coalition unions (of which EAA is
not a member).
All four of the commissioners who voted yes needs to be voted out.
The commissioners are appointed by the Mayor. Therefore you should vote out the Mayor in order to get rid of commissioners.
Small corrections:
1. It's Maggie Whelan, not Whalen.
2. Her Phone number is 213 473-3470.
“This could be a minefield. I don’t understand what it means.”
Commissioner De los Reyes voted for something he admits he doesn't understand. I call that dereliction of duty. How did he arrive at his vote? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe? Coin toss? What kind of numb skulls do we have running this City? We should be demanding this mans resignation.
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