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Greetings, union brothers and sisters. Your negotiation team met with the department regarding the reestablishment of a CMISP unit. This unit will be located at 4600 Broadway, where the Primary Care Clinic is located. Due to changes, in part, caused by HR-1, the department believes there will be a need for a full-time unit of eligibility workers. The unit will also consist of 1 OA, 1 HSS supervisor, and 6 HSS. All staff will report to the HSS supervisor. The hours will be

Greetings, Union Family, Your Yuba Negotiations Team met with the Court for our third bargaining session on November 5, 2026. We passed over a proposal to allow staff to use the 2nd-floor vacant office again for private phone calls as necessary. The Court agreed to this, stating that it would be unlocked on January 1, 2027, once IT is able to remove the computer system. We also counter-proposed their bilingual pay proposal, with $15 per half hour instead of $10. They rejected

Greetings, Union Family, Your 008 governing board met with DHA management to continue our discussions on the new HSS backfilling the vacant HSQRS position in General Assistance. The department continued with their desire to have sanctions be performed by the HSS, even though that was what the HSQRS used to do. They stated that it is not out-of-class work because other HSS (like those in CW or WTW) apply and remove sanctions. We thoroughly reviewed and compared the sanctions p

Greetings, union brothers and sisters, Your 008 bargaining unit met with the department regarding changes they are making to the frequency of timesheet submission during time study periods. The department stated they are updating this process so they can better forecast and evaluate labor costs. Staff will now be asked to enter timesheet details on the first Friday of the pay period and save it. By saving this information, the finance units will be able to capture this inform

UPE met and conferred with the Court on October 7th and November 2nd, 2026, regarding upcoming changes to various procedures. First, the Court noticed UPE that Probation will be e-filing similarly to the DA’s office. The Court anticipates that this will make work more efficient for staff because they will no longer have to download data from Probation only to upload it again into the Court systems. Probation is still working on the functionality on their end before it can go

Greetings, Union Family, On November 3, 2026, your 005 governing board met with DCSS management to discuss updates to some of their department policies, specifically: telework, outside employment, parking, and personal technology use. Most of the edits were grammatical, but our team raised important questions regarding their application of them. For example, the technology policy allows people to listen to music on their headphones with their phone being placed face down. We