CPF Special Convention 2012: CPF members from throughout California gathered in an urgent Special Convention in January to take action against a November initiative aimed at working people in California.
Local 1014 Members prepare to fight to keep our voice and our votes to protect and advance our profession through political action and lobbying and legislation. It is only with these tools that we are effective in bargaining for ourselves and our salary and benefits inclusive of working conditions. Without a voice and standing at the table, we would have no method to protect ourselves and to fairly negotiate for wages and retirement and healthcare issues as well as staffing and health and safety issues that are so vital and important to our membership. If this initiative passes, we will no longer be legally allowed to form a PAC and participate in elections while at the same time allowing the corporations and businesses who work contrary to our salary and in particular who seek to strip our retirement and healcare clean to form super PAC's and play in elections all they want with superpower. It doesn't take a genious to see what they will go after if they are sucessful in passing paycheck protection to silence our voice and our votes.
Stay tuned and we will be communicating with the membership a very comprehensive warplan and what will be expected out of all of us to win this battle...
Thanks in advance for your continued resilience and power to make Los Angeles County Fire Fighters, IAFF Local 1014 one of the strongest Unions in America, and once again, we will be at the forefront of this battle.
Local 1014 Executive Board
A Fight We Can't Afford to Lose: CPF's official campaign page: Track the campaign to defeat the Corporate Loophole Initiative.
