Monday, May 19, 2008

Updates: Officers, Contract Campaign, SEIU

A few updates from an email sent out by CSUEU Vice President for Organizing Ronnie Grant:

Changes

I have a few changes to our member leadership to announce:
  • Adriana Petterz has resigned from the Statewide Organizing Committee and as Chapter 315 Organizing Chair.
  • Tessy Reese has resigned as Chapter Vice President to focus on her duties as Unit 2 Representative.
  • Dan Clavin has announced he will resign as Chapter 318 President effective May 30.
  • Malinda Howze has resigned as Chapter 319 Treasurer.
I would like to thank Adriana, Tessy, Dan and Malinda for their service to CSUEU.

If you have previously submitted your name to me for consideration of an appointment to the Organizing Committee, I still have your name on file.

2009 Contract Campaign Plan

The Organizing Committee met May 2-3 in Pomona to write the 2009 Contract Campaign Plan. I am now in the process of compiling the notes and making a nice-looking document for your review.

SEIU meeting in Oakland

A few weeks ago the Executive Officer Committee met with SEIU at their Oakland office. Most of the meeting was a preview of SEIU's resolutions at the International Convention. We spent only a few minutes speaking about resources and the required renegotiation of the Unity Fund rebates. SEIU hinted that they are interested in CSUEU implementing a COPE program.

Executive Officer Committee

The CSUEU Executive Officer Committee will be meeting on Thursday, June 19 at the Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach. This meeting was accidentally omitted from the schedule you recently received.

SEIU meeting in Oakland

A few weeks ago the Executive Officer Committee met with SEIU at their Oakland office. Most of the meeting was a preview of SEIU's resolutions at the International Convention. We spent only a few minutes speaking about resources and the required renegotiation of the Unity Fund rebates. SEIU hinted that they are interested in CSUEU implementing a COPE program.

About COPE

Editor's note: COPE is the Committee On Political Education, one of SEIU's political efforts. The SEIU COPE web site requires a login and doesn't appear to have any information available to the general public. The main SEIU homepage at www.seiu.org, currently carries this statement: This web page is paid for by SEIU COPE (www.seiucope.org) with voluntary contributions from SEIU members and their families and is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. One SEIU COPE membership form we found carried this statement about how the money is spent: SEIU COPE uses the money it receives for political purposes, including but not limited to addressing political issues of public importance and contributing to and spending money in connection with federal, state and local elections.

SEIU Convention

Ronnie states he will not be attending the SEIU International Convention in Puerto Rico in June. Instead, he will be taking a week of vacation to work on the contract campaign planning (follow-up from the recent Organizing Commitee Meeting), and working with CSUEU and central support staff toward improving IT and membership services.

Editor's note: The SEIU International Convention meets in Puerto Rico June 2-4. Delegates will elect SEIU officers and determine the direction SEIU will take over the next few years. A local's delegation has the same number of votes regardless of how many people make up the delegation, so we won't lose any votes at the convention because Ronnie's working for us here in California instead. CSUEU is SEIU Local 2579.

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