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March 15, 2011
The City of Stockton has asked the Stockton City Employees' Association (SCEA) to reopen its labor agreement entirely and renegotiate it from scratch. In a February 16 letter to SCEA attorney Joe Rose, interim human resources director Di Smith asked SCEA to renegotiate contract provisions relating to salary and benefits. But during a March 4 [...]
January 4, 2011
The secret ballot election for the Board of Directors of the Stockton City Employees Association (SCEA) closed on December 31. 162 ballots containing 328 votes were cast for 14 candidates in four contested regions. 6 regions were not contested. Ballots were publicly counted last night beginning at 7:00 p.m. at the Chase Building. Ballot counting ended [...]
June 1, 2010
The 413 members of the Stockton City Employees Association (SCEA) have approved more than $4.87M in economic concessions by secret ballot election. This evening, the secret ballots were publicly counted in SCEA's election for the most recent concessions proposal. There were 290 ballots cast in the election, representing 70.2% of SCEA's total membership (413). Of [...]
April 8, 2010
A general membership meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 14 at 5:30 p.m. The location of the meeting is the Chase Building, 400 East Main, Stockton, in the cafe. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an update to members of the Stockton City Employees Association on the progress of discussions with the [...]
April 8, 2010
City Manager Kevin O’Rourke offered to labor leaders in an email today to hire an outside consultant to address lingering doubts about the City’s financial position and the reliability of budget data. A meeting is scheduled for April 14 to define the scope of work of the consultant, Management Partners, Inc. of San Jose. Quoted [...]
April 8, 2010
The presidents of the eight labor organizations in the City of Stockton were invited by the City Manager to attend a joint meeting on April 1 to discuss an approach to negotiations for future concessions to address the City’s budget deficit. Mary Morley attended on behalf of SCEA. Also in attendance were Robert Applegate (B&C [...]
September 16, 2008
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the labor union that swarmed the homes of City of Stockton employees in June of this year seeking to oust SCEA as your employee organization, is troubled by two recent controversies involving its leaders. Just days ago it was reported in The Sacramento Bee that SEIU Local 1000 District Labor [...]
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