CSUEU: Chapter 312, Northridge

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2013 Membership Drive

During May and June 2013 ca$h prizes will be awarded each month to the member who signs up the most new members. All new members will receive a chapter gift.

2013 Membership Drive Application

Letter to memebers

Letter to fee payer members

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Pension reform agreement key details and CRS' response.

• New employees will be required to pay 50% of normal costs. Current employees: the employer can bargain to require current employees to pay any portion of the retirement contribution.
• The hybrid will be dropped, and instead a reduced formula will be implemented.
• The retirement age for misc. employees will be increased to 67 for maximum retirement and 57 for maximum safety retirement.
• The governor's rules for the three year final compensation, regular, recurring pay and limiting post retirement employment to 960 hours will be implemented.
• The Governor's proposals on taking away pension earnings from felons; to prohibit retroactive pensions; to eliminate pension holidays; and to eliminate purchase of service credit for air time will be implemented.
• Pension Boards. The Governor's proposal to change the pension boards and to increase vesting and employee contributions for health care will not be implemented.
• New proposal: Pensionable salary will be capped at $110,000 for those in Social Security and $130,000 for those not in Social Security.

Following is a statement from Dave Low, chairman of Californians for Retirement Security, a coalition representing 1.5 million public employees and retirees.

"We are outraged that a Democratic Governor and Democratic Legislature are taking a wrecking ball to retirement security for teachers, firefighters, school employees, and police officers. While we support common-sense changes to end spiking and abuse of the system, this package is unfair and wrong.

This is the largest rollback in providing a secure retirement to teachers, firefighters, and police officers in California history, reducing benefits to pre-Reagan era benefits. It will hurt all Californians by making it more difficult to attract and keep experienced teachers in the classroom and veteran police officers and firefighters on our streets. Public workers have done more than their fair share during the past several years of lean budgets, taking pay cuts, furloughs, and paying more for health care. This proposal hurts hundreds of thousands of low- and middle-class workers who negotiated in good faith and now will be hit with more cuts and takeaways, getting nothing in return.

This is far more than 'low hanging fruit.' This is the fruit, the branch, the tree trunk, and the roots. This is a sweeping proposal that undermines collective bargaining, and is being enacted unilaterally thru the political process rather than in good faith negotiations at the bargaining table."

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2013 Chapter 312 Budget; Bargaining 101; Red Cross Disaster Supplies Calendar