008 Meet & Confer Update  Impact of Staffing Levels on DHA 6/26/19     UPE and DHA met on June 26, 2019 to discuss the impact of reduced staffing levels on 008 workers in DHA. UPE questioned the department extensively about what requirements are in place currently for our workers that are Sacramento County mandates and not State or Federal Mandates. DHA Division Manager Renee Lowder claimed that they have communicated to managers and supervisors that workers are not to be pressured due to high workloads. DHA managers stated they want workers to focus on quality service rather than quantity. UPE made it clear that this message is not being received on the floor by workers who are still being pressured by supervisors to do more with less.  Click here to read more.

Sutter Court Meet and Confer Update Personnel Manual 6/18/19    Representatives from UPE met and conferred with the Court on June 18, 2019 to discuss the Personnel Manual.  UPE proposed over a dozen changes to the manual in order to improve the day-to-day operations of the Court for our members.  The two sides reached tentative agreement on some changes, agreed to continue to meet over the Manual and scheduled to meet again July 16, 2019.  In particular, the two sides will discuss a more extensive revision to the evaluation process at the follow up meeting.  UPE will continue to update the membership after the next meeting.

008 Meet & Confer Update    Unit 3 Contract Ratification Vote Results      On June 19, 2019, Unit 3 members voted to ratify their contract. See the results below:  Yes: 86%  No: 14%

008 Meet & Confer Update CPS- FSW Youth Transport Pilot         UPE met and conferred with representatives from DCFAS on June 20, 2019 to discuss the Department’s plan to contract with Hop, Skip, Drive to provide additional School Runs when FSW’s are unavailable.  According to the Department, they face an increasing need to provide school transport for Foster youth due to AB 490’s requirement that foster youth continue to attend their school of origin.  At times over the last year, the Department needed to delay providing transport for youth for up to 4 days until FSW transport could be arranged.   Click here to read more.

Yuba Court Meet & Confer Update    Student Interns 6/24/19       Representatives from UPE met and conferred with the Court on June 24th, 2019 to discuss the Court's plan to start a student intern program. Interns will be hired as limited term extra-help employees and will be paid $12.00 an hour. The Court plans to only select children and possibly grandchildren of current Court employees. The interns will be scanning old DCSS documents that are currently stored in the Court basement. Interns will be paid using AB 1058 funds designated for DCSS cases. This money can only be spent on these cases and therefore the interns will only handle DCSS documents. The Court plans to hire no more than 10 interns who will be able to work from JUly 2019 until the end of July 2020.  Click here to read more.

005 Salary Survey Update!     On May 30, 2019, UPE met with the County to continue our disussion around the 005 Salary Survey. UPE presented job specs to the County from the jurisdictions that we believe should be included in the salary survey. These included: Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. At the last meeting, the County agreed to include Contra Costa, but they continue to oppose including the other two counties. UPE reminded the County that discussions from our previous meeting led to the understanding that the County would take a look at the information we've provided from our proposed jurisdictions.  Click here to read more.

008 Meet and Confer Update Caseload Reduction Black Child Legacy Social Workers 6/27/19        UPE and CPS continued meeting over a possible caseload reduction for BCL Social Workers.  The two sides previously met in February.  At that meeting, UPE proposed that BCL workers receive a .8 caseload reduction.  This would place them in line with other out- stationed social workers and would help to account for the additional duties they are required to perform as a part of the BCL program.  UPE argued that BCL workers must take on a significant number of extra duties at their locations, which makes it extremely difficult to keep up with their normal caseload.   Click here to read more.

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NEWS & EVENTS  JULY Wed, July 3rd- 005 Office Technical Board Meeting, 6:00 p.m. at UPE Tue, July 9th - Court Professionals Unit Meeting, 12:00 p.m. at FRC Tue, July 9th - Merced County Board Meeting, 5:30 p.m. at 2222 M Street, Room 310 Tue, July 9th - 008 Welfare Non-Supervisory Board Meeting, 6:00 p.m. at UPE Thu, July 11th- Sutter Board Meeting, 12:00 p.m. at Sutter Thu, July 11th - Court Office Technical Board Meeting, 5:30 p.m. at UPE Thursday, July 18th- Yuba Board Meeting, 12:00 p.m. at TBD Thu, July 18th - 6:00 p.m. at UPE - Stewards Council: Advanced Department of Labor Rights - Basic Steward Training II (Session 2) Tue, July 23rd - Board of Directors Meeting, 6:00 p.m. at UPE