{"id":246,"date":"2008-12-03T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/246\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T18:58:44","slug":"246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/03\/246\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Sisters and Brothers:<\/p>\n

With the onset of the Holiday Season, allow me\u00a0to update you on a few items of interest.<\/p>\n

Holiday Party<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The local will be holding it’s annual holiday party on December 12th at Moretti’s on West Jackson.\u00a0 The deadline for RSVP is December 4, 2008.\u00a0 <\/em>You can bring one guest and law clerks are welcome.\u00a0 One catch:\u00a0 you must RSVP by email to unionparty08@gmail.com<\/a>.\u00a0 You must identify not only yourself but your guest as well.\u00a0 Please respect the process and send the email.\u00a0 This is the only way the local can know how many people to have food and drink for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Negotiations<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since September, local board members have been participating in bargaining\u00a0with the County in order to obtain a new collective bargaining agreement for Local 3315.\u00a0 As in past years, the County and AFSCME have been unable to negotiate a new contract before the current one expired.\u00a0 While the contract has a self renewal clause, but for that provision, it\u00a0expired on November 30th, 2008.\u00a0 The issues currently on the table\u00a0are non-economic and concern such things as the use of personal days and military leave.\u00a0 Many other non-ecomomic\u00a0issues are currently on\u00a0both the universal table and local table.<\/p>\n

The County will only engage in a discussion of economic issues (i.e. wages and health care) once the non-economic issues have\u00a0been resolved.\u00a0 Forthcoming is the usual report from some consulting firm the County hires (at conderable expense)\u00a0to describe the health plan we currently enjoy and how the County just can’t afford such benefits.\u00a0 \u00a0The process, at this time, is painfully slow and we anticipate the necessity for job actions to pressure the County in moving the negotiations along.\u00a0 Stay tuned and please cooperate with job actions requested by your executive board.<\/p>\n

The 1% Issue<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The arbitration concerning the 1%issue will be held on December 12th, 2008.\u00a0 As soon as there is a decision from the arbitrator, we will inform the membership.\u00a0( The decision will probably not be available till the early months of 2009.)<\/p>\n

Union Dues<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

As of January 1, 2009, your dues will increase 69 cents per pay period.\u00a0 The increase was mandated by the International and while we regret an increase, it insures that the local maintains the level of services and benefits\u00a0offered to our members.<\/p>\n

ARDC Dues<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Please don’t forget to pay your ARDC dues because our contract requires that all assistants be “listed on the Master Roll\u00a0of attorneys licensed to practice in the State of Illinois and shall remain so listed during the term of employment.”\u00a0 Management is verifying compliance online so please comply promptly.\u00a0 Incidentally, we are proposing, in local negotiations, that the County pay our dues in the next contract.<\/p>\n

Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n

K. S. Galhotra<\/p>\n

President, Local 3315<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Sisters and Brothers: With the onset of the Holiday Season, allow me\u00a0to update you on a few items of interest. Holiday Party The local will be holding it’s annual holiday party on December 12th at Moretti’s on West Jackson.\u00a0 The deadline for RSVP is December 4, 2008.\u00a0 You can bring one guest and law […]<\/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-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}