On April 28th SEIU was notified that the Governor expects to issue a budget cutting Executive Order on May 5th to address the $785 million shortfall for the current fiscal year. SEIU will work on getting details and assuring that the contract language is followed. All three SEIU Local 517M contracts limit temporary layoff days to six per fiscal year. As soon as there is ANYTHING more to share, it will be posted on the website and sent out via e-mail.  Are you aware of potential significant savings that the State should be looking at to address the budget deficit?

The purpose of this blog is to share information about obtaining union representation. I know many of you thought the drive to join a union went off the road. Not so. Let me bring you up to date on where we are as well as what MORC is doing.

There is still a lot of discontent from the workers at MORC. Many still want to even the playing field with union representation. What is MORC doing about this situation? First they hired new workers to dilute the number of people who would be interested in joining a union. Then they formed a focus committee. That is MORC’s answer to everything; form a committee that will have no power and do nothing but take up time.

You may want to ask yourself if your case load has gotten any lighter, or if the paperwork has decreased. Remember when OCCMHA came to MORC after an audit and informed all that this audit was very good. They reported our goals were extremely well written. About two weeks later, MORC informed us that our goals had to change! Suddenly we no longer knew how to write a goal.

Ask yourself; how many hours a week do you work to keep up on the paperwork? When was the last time you took a vacation without working overtime to complete your paperwork that never gets completed? When was the last time your supervisor took a week or two of vacation?