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Court Offers Insulting One-Time Payment Your UPE Court Professional Unit Bargaining Team continued negotiations with Sacramento Court on August 14, 2026. UPE made seven additional proposals in an effort to improve working conditions and livable wage increases. The proposals included wage increases, protections against AI, improvements to retiree health benefits, and the ability to cash out sick leave and/or convert to vacation time. The Court responded with an insulting prop

Greetings, Union Brothers and Sisters, On August 13, 2026, your 008 board met with DHA management to follow up on the implementation of ABAWD. Clients are now receiving letters saying that their CalFresh is ending, and workers have not received the info needed to provide clients with how to meet their work requirements and/or receive exemptions. Additionally, training was not conducted in the manner we were told it would, leaving workers unprepared. We made several proposal

Greetings, Union Sisters and Brothers, On August 12, 2026, your 005 board members and subject matter experts met with DHA management regarding the CMISP line function at East Commerce, following the closure of 28th Street. We met with management regarding the transfer of this duty earlier this year, and we were told that all members in the BCW unit at East Commerce would be trained to assist the current staff with this phone line. That did not happen until now, 6 months later

Greetings UPE Family! On August 5, 2026, your UPE bargaining team met with Labor Relations and Employment Services regarding the Child Development Specialist Class Study. Previously, the CDS I and II classes were separate and had a one (1) year probationary period; they are now tied together as CDS I/II, as all other classifications that have a level I and II are, and the probationary period is now six (6) months. This creates a clearer pathway for CDS I’s to promote to C

Greetings UPE Family! On August 4, 2026, your UPE bargaining team met with the department regarding the closure of the Ombudsperson’s Office within DCFAS. The work was shifted to its respective divisions within the Office Technical (005) bargaining unit. At the start of the meeting, the department presented year-to-date data regarding call volume. The most impact was within CPS (Child Protective Services), which your UPE team found to be of minimal impact. UPE requested that