Membership Survey, Bargaining Team Selection
CAPE representatives are once again returning to the bargaining table to discuss our salary contract terms with County officials. To make sure our team presents the best proposals, the CAPE Board of Directors has already set a course to take input from members, and started the process for assembling the contract bargaining teams to represent all six CAPE L.A. County bargaining units.
Membership Survey: In late January, CAPE members will receive a salary contract negotiations survey to convey their preferences and priorities for the 2013 negotiations with County officials. Participation in the survey is intended to be available to members primarily online and by paper copy on request.
Bargaining Team Selection: The CAPE Board of Directors is accepting Volunteer Forms from rank-andfile members to be a member of the 2013 Contract Negotiations Team. Completed Forms are due by 5:00 PM on Thursday, January 24, 2013. The CAPE Board is scheduled to review the forms and make the Team appointments at or before their February Board Meeting. For more information about the time commitments and responsibilities of Negotiation Team members, contact the CAPE office. For a copy of the Volunteer Form, please visit the website at http://www.capeunion.org/contract-negotiations.
CAPE members responding to the Membership Survey could indicate their position that a fair cost-of-livingadjustment pay raise is overdue. Most agree that the County’s financial condition has remained stable enough to support across-the-board adjustments for the dedicated workforce that helped the County survive the economic downturn. Working against our position is the continued strong headwind of public sentiment that public employees still have not given enough back to taxpayers.
CAPE’s representatives will take all of these issues and much more into account as they make their formal contract proposals to County officials later this year.