Greetings, Union sisters and brothers. On August 6, 2024, your UPE 005/008 bargaining team met with DHA management about their plan to go back to doing all General Assistance (GA) intakes face-to-face starting November 1, 2024, and eliminating the COVID-era documentation waivers.
Your team expressed our concerns about workload, lack of interview booths or a resource room, and safety. We proposed that GA intakes be reduced to four (4) per day per worker for the first 60 days and that impacted eligibility staff be given appropriate training for the new version of FTF workers.
More meetings are to be scheduled, and we are still waiting for management’s responses to the Union’s proposals. Stay tuned!