Dear Brothers and Sisters:<\/p>\n
Many of you noticed that you received a smaller paycheck on September 5th than you usually get. \u00a0While we disagree with the County’s reason for taking away our money, it is something we had been anticipating for at least four weeks. On August 3, 2008, I sent an email burst to all members on the local’s list (you can get on this list by sending an email to board@cookcountypd.org with your name and worksite) alerting them to the status of the 1% situation. \u00a0Here is the content of the email burst:<\/p>\n
Dear Sisters and Brothers:<\/em><\/p>\n I wanted to send this message to you in a e-mail, as opposed to posting it on the website, because I thought it would be a more appropriate method.\u00a0I received news last week at the convention from Peter Schmaltz, regional director for Council 31 and one of the main men who negotiated our last contract.\u00a0The news is not good. \u00a0It is about the AFSCME pay plan which everyone over step three has been receiving since the second paycheck in June. \u00a0This you will recall was an extra one percent that was to be added (to all steps after step three in Grades two three and four) in addition to the 2.75% pay increase that we received in June of this year. \u00a0The county and the local had agreed at the table on this, partly as a way to offset the increase in the health care contributions, but last year, the County was pretending they didn’t know what we were talking about. \u00a0Then in June, after we began to look for a date for arbitration over the issue,\u00a0our paychecks showed that they followed the agreement. \u00a0Everything seemed fine in July, but then I received news from\u00a0Peter Schmaltz that the County is going to take the one percent\u00a0away from us\u00a0and that we will have to arbitrate the issue anyway.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n So, there is a good chance that\u00a0your check may look different this week. \u00a0Your salary may be one percent less then the last pay period. \u00a0Please check your pay stub for any disparity.\u00a0Be mindful that we are trying to speed up the arbitration process so we can get our money back as soon as possible-assuming they take it away. \u00a0And I say that because the County has a track record of saying one thing and doing another.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>I will keep the members posted on further developments on this issue.<\/em><\/p>\n In\u00a0Solidarity,\u00a0<\/em>K. S. Galhotra<\/em><\/p>\n President, Local 3315\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Brothers and Sisters: Many of you noticed that you received a smaller paycheck on September 5th than you usually get. \u00a0While we disagree with the County’s reason for taking away our money, it is something we had been anticipating for at least four weeks. On August 3, 2008, I sent an email burst to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}