Procedures and Rights in the Event of Layoffs
- CPER Pocket Guides - CPER (California Public Employee Relations) has a number of good guides, including a new one about HEERA (this is the one Teven mentioned at the July 2003 DC). Pocket Guide topics include ADA, FLSA, FMLA, Unfair Labor Practices, Workplace Rights of Public Employees, the Basics of Labor Relations, and HEERA.
- The Legal Rights of Union Stewards
- The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job by Gary and Ruth Namie. Gary Namie spoke at the 2002 CSEA Women's Conference, to a packed house and rave reviews.
Sigh. I couldn't get a print-quality version of the hexagonal CSEA logo, so I finally scanned a mousepad and cleaned up the image locally. Please download the files to your own machine before trying to use them. If you improve them, or have a better version, please share it with me and I will include it here.
- AFL-CIO
- Association Policy File
- Bargaining Info
- Board of Trustees
- Bullying in the Workplace
- Bylaws - Chapter 304 (PDF also available)
- California Code
- California Constitution - searchable, with a Table of Contents as well
- Campus Calendar for all CSU campuses for 2003-2004 - This shows key dates for all campuses on one page. I have a copy but am not publishing it here because the Chancellor's Office has not yet released it on the web yet. However I can share it with CSU colleagues as needed, so if you need a copy, email me.
- CalPers Benefit/Retirement Info
- Chapter Web Sites
- Chapter 304 stationery
- Chapter officers from 2003 elections
- Chaptercomm Mailing list for activists involved or interested in chapter communications and organizing
- CMS Auditor Report: Budget Overruns, Poor Functionality, and Questionable Ethics
- Classification Standards
- Constitution - Chapter 304 (PDF also available)
- Contract (2002-2005)
- CSEA Calendar - meetings and whatnot. Now you know when the next DC is.
- CSEA Mailing lists
- CSEA Staff Contact info
- CSEA Women's Committee
- CSU Information Center - on the CSU web site maintained by the Chancellor's Office, this has links to Coded Memoranda, Policies, etc. Other interesting CSU sites are:
- Directories for Campuses - We still do not have an online directory, and as of this writing, headquarters is still not releasing the contact information for the campuses. Email me and I'll send you my list; if you just need to look up a person's on-campus contact information, the Chancellor's Office has a helpful list of campus directories
- Discount card packets - for members only. Chapter 304 people, contact Amanda for one. Other chapters, contact Member Services manager Karen Murphy (kmurphy@calcsea.org) and ask her to send you some. These are very popular with members as a tangible CSEA benefit -- just be sure to verify the person's membership status before handing them out. For this reason, I usually have a sign-up sheet at events rather than the packets themselves, so that I can check my membership list before sending them in campus mail.
Note: Karen Murphy is no longer with CSEA. My calls to Association headquarters have not turned up anyone who is familiar with the packets or interested in distributing them. If you have any information on these, please let me know.
- Divison Policy File (this may to be an older version, without the updates of the last couple of years. I'm researching this.)
- FLSA
- FLSA Advisor from the Department of Labor
- Grievance forms
- Grievant rights and responsibilities form language
- HEERA
- HVAC Requirements - ventilation requirements
- Information Request Examples
- Sonoma info request regarding union leave reporting on paycheck stub: Word format | PDF
- Know Your Rights flyers for CSU Division
- Know Your Rights flyers from Civil Service Division - Check whether specific information applies to us before using it, but they have way more stuff than we do, on a lot of topics we don't cover
- Membership forms -- You can print membership applications from this pdf. To get a printed membership form at Sonoma State, contact Amanda. To get a stack of cards for other chapters, ask your LRR to bring some or call Dayna. Personally, I usually just call Dayna, but then we haven't had an LRR for most of the last year. :-) If you use the old forms with the "pick a cap or a tote bag as a bonus gift" piece at the bottom, draw a big ol' X through that part because it's not happening anymore.
Note: I do not recommend having new members mail in the postcards directly. If new members turn them in to you, you can (1) keep a copy in a secure location in case you ever need to call headquarters and say "She did too join, and I know this because I'm looking at the membership form which I personally mailed on _some_date_" and (2) you can mail them in those nifty blue membership-form-only postage paid envelopes, so their personal information isn't so easy to read and the card isn't so likely to get lost in the postal machinery.
- Membership data by chapter from CSEA
- NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- OSHA - Worker Rights Under the OSH Act
- PERB
- Privacy Rights (A Chapter 304 Info Sheet)
- Probation Guide (Printed copies available from headquarters)
- Retirement Calculator from CalPERS
- SEIU - What's SEIU up to now?
- SEIU Affiliation Agreement
- SEIU Member Benefits - includes SEIU credit cards, probably the closest thing to the CSEA credit card we used to have, and there is a provision to skip a couple of payments in the event of a layoff. Mind you, I have no idea whether we still get these benefits, being as we're not sending them all the money they want.
- SPB - State Personnel Board web site
- SPB appeal form
- SSU-CSEA Mailing List - This is a campus mailing list, managed by Susan Baur, Chapter 304 Secretary. This list is for Chapter 304 members only at this time.
- State Budget Process Diagram
- ULP (Unfair Labor Practice) charge info at PERB
- Union Plus Credit Card Scholarship Information - You do not need to have a Union Plus credit card for this. Open to union members, spouse, and dependent children; requires at least one year of membership in good standing; applications available September - January and due January 31 (according to Union Plus web site September 2003).
- Unit 9 Mailing List - open to Unit 9 stewards, reps, and other activists statewide.
- Volunteer task list
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Worker's Compensation - general information and links from AFL-CIO
Handy Links - Other Unions, etc.
I would like to share information among ourselves about our experiences with different vendors of promo items. Below are my experiences so far; please email me with yours and I will add them here. I am especially interested in hearing from anyone who has found a reliable, trustworthy vendor for custom items.
- Anderson Marketing
- I recommend staying far, far away from them. They botched the one order we placed with them, and did not want to fix it. After months of frustrating attempts to get a response from them, I finally just had to send them an ultimatum: send us the order, correctly, within two weeks, or cancel the order. They finally said they'd cancel the order, and stopped trying to get us to pay for something we had never received, but the whole experience was just incredibly frustrating, and cost a lot of time and a bit of money (to ship the bad order of pens back).
Lesson 1: Deal with vendors only in writing. Thank goodness I have written copies of my order confirmation.
Lesson 2: Never ever do business with Anderson Marketing.
Incidentally, I picked this company because these are the people Dayna orders pens and whatnot from, and she has had good experiences. My experience was about as negative as could be; they did everything wrong. About the only thing they could have done to make things worse would have been to swear at me, slash my tires, and threaten my dog.
- ShopCSEA Mail Order [Currently unavailable]
- Nice products, but slow and unreliable; we have had problems with both orders we placed directly with them. The first one, which we placed in March 2002, has still not been completed, and what was delivered was months late. The second order, which we placed earlier this year, was also incomplete.
- ShopCSEA through Member Services [Currently unavailable]
- Terrific. We placed two orders at Division Council with the folks at the Member Services table. They were able to give us some of it right there, but what really impressed me was that a few days later I got a call from a staff member verifying what we had picked up at DC, to make sure they sent out the right stuff. The rest of the orders arrived quickly, and they were actually complete! Hooray! If you need ShopCSEA stuff, get it through Member Services if at all possible.
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Released 17 June 2003
Updated 26 June 2004
Questions or comments: amanda.tunison@sonoma.edu
