Your Local 1014 Executive Board has remained very busy and engaged on numerous fronts. We just finished an extremely productive offsite meeting with the Fire Chief and his top staff to get moving on a number of projects that will ultimately help our working conditions and improve our work quality and stabilize funding. The main topics discussed were EMS Issues, Organizational Culture and P. R. with our Public and Elected Officials (Those who support us), Risk Management Issues (anything that causes Lawsuits and or Increased Costs due to injuries or other such items, and Fiscal Issues to include Revenue and Grants. We will report more on this as we begin the tasks we laid out in the meeting. We have also seen 2 more of our brothers die from Cancer, and on the heels of the FCSN GALA and working hard to help support the organization we helped start, it is a stark reminder of how one of our silent killers is still claiming too many of our members. We also just came off a great series of wins in our political action efforts and as you will read helped maintain our El Monte Stations this year. We are also bargaining our fringe benefits and we have hit a major and problematic hurdle with the County and we will move to mediation to try and get forward movement again. This is a very stressful time and your patience while we fight the fight is appreciated. Finally a quick update on the 48/96 one year trial shift schedule proposal update also… please read on and as always thank you for your support and your efforts to make our Union Strong and Bold and Effective in what we do for us all. Be Safe and give big love to your family and friends… always a good thing.

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING CANCELLED (Tuesday November 12 2013) – HONORING SHAWN BAYER…Local 1014 General Membership Meeting will be cancelled for Tuesday November 12 so we all may attend Brother Bayer’s Flag Ceremony – 11am at Fire Station 8. Also BROTHER JOHN VINCENT – Health Haz Mat Specialist III who died at the age of 46 from Leukemia will also be honored on November 23rd. Please take time to make the ceremonies and honor our fallen. Click here for details on Brother Bayer's services. Brother Vincent's details to follow shortly.

LOCAL 1014 WINS BIG IN CITY ELECTIONS AGAIN - It was another busy but very successful City election cycle for Local 1014. Twenty two (22) of twenty five (25) candidates that we endorsed were successful in their bid for public office. Measure GG in the City of El Monte also passed after an aggressive campaign by Local 1014, keeping $4 million in the City’s budget that will help keep all of their Fire Stations open! Read More…

CCU FRINGE BARGAINING CONTINUES – HOSTILE COUNTY – RETIREE HEALTHCARE THREATENED - The CCU Bargaining Teams have been going at it for weeks now to no avail on landing a fair contract. As you know our new choices will take effect in January 2014, and without any increase in contribution to our Health care Premiums, we stand to lose money out of pocket depending on the increase of medical premiums for your health and dental plan. We are now going to a Mediator to try and close the gap and get closer to a fair deal, but the County is currently refusing to come to the table with any fair deal points unless draconian politically based cuts to retiree health care for our new hires is agreed to. While we are ready to work on the cost of unfunded liability for retiree health care we are not going to simply sell our new hires down the road. Fighting for fair terms and tools to deal with retiree health care and increased costs is well worth it and we will hold out and take job actions to get the train on the tracks if necessary until the County understands a fair deal for all is the only deal that will sell. We will keep you posted. SEIU’s 90,000 workers approved authority to strike also, further complicating things for the CCU and the County. We will work with SEUI and the Federation of Labor to pressure the County to get back to the table with fair terms and bargain in good faith. We will keep you posted. Read more here – CCU Member Update…

SHIFT SCHEDULE CHANGE ISSUE – The Shift Change Schedule Change Committee has met more than a few times with a lot of hard work poured into evaluating 3 things related to the proposed 48/96 Shift Schedule Change Proposal brought to the Local by a group of members. We take this item very seriously and as you know, so too does every member either supportive or opposed to the item. To date let us bring you up to speed…We had a group of members propose negotiating a ONE YEAR TRIAL 48/96 SCHEDULE, with a vote on finish to determine whether to continue the schedule permanently or not. President Gillotte assigned a Pro and No Committee to consider 1. What vote threshold should be used to poll the members to determine whether the majority of the membership wished to move forward to a one year trial. 2. Should Local 1014 Facilitate sending out material both pro and con on the item with such a vote. 3. If so, what material should be sent. This committee has met numerous times and put in a great deal of very hard work and has reported the committee report back to the Executive Board. We will be considering the Report and other information at our next regularly scheduled Executive Board Meeting and the Executive Board will then take any and all actions to move the item forward. While we are not bound by the committee recommendations on any of the items, it was prudent to get a good team of both pro and con general members together to work on good data and information for us to consider in moving such a big life changing and working condition item. The CCU Bargaining has slowed progress on this item for the moment, but we will continue to run parallel work on the item as we can, and keep you informed. More after our next Executive Board Meeting in December.

Above all have a safe and happy Veteran's Day. Please take time to keep our veterans in your thoughts and prayers. Read more....

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