State Workers Vote No On Concessionary Contract Pushed By Union Tops

State Workers Vote No On Concessionary Contract Pushed By Union Tops
http://stateworker.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/vote-no-on-all-concessionary-contracts/

VOTE NO ON ALL CONCESSIONARY CONTRACTS!

THE INTER-UNION COMMITTEE OF STATE WORKERS AT CDPH CALLS FOR UNITED ACTION OF ALL STATE AND PUBLIC WORKERS AGAINST CONCESSIONARY CONTRACTS! VOTE THEM DOWN!
INITIATE ACTION COMMITTEES HOLD FORUMS
PREPARE FOR A STATE WIDE GENERAL STRIKE!

State, public workers and programs that serve the people are under attack by the very politicians workers put their faith in! In the meantime the billionaires reap record profits, the banks and big corporations hoard capital and Governor Brown demands that State Workers accept concessionary contracts! GIVE THE TA SIGNED BY SEIU 1000 A BIG NO VOTE!

WE SHARED THE PAIN! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

State Workers already paid for the economic crisis with three years of furloughs and lost hours, stolen holidays, uncompensated increases in medical and pensions. No Cost Of Living Allowances effectively cuts our wages by 25% since the year 2000, while attrition and hiring freezes results in speed up, stress and supervisorial misconduct (bullying-which contract language along will not eliminate). Even the yet to be seen 3% increase from the 2012 contract only partially covered the increase in medical and pension contributions State Workers suffered under that agreement. The proposed 4.5% over two years of a 3 year contract puts us back even further!

100 BILLIONAIRES SAY CALIFORNIA IS AWASH WITH CASH

At the beginning of the crisis there were only 84 billionaires in California, today there are 100! It is not for the State Worker to tell the legislature or the governor where to get the money that is their problem. But it is obvious that the money has been flowing to the top at the expense of those on the bottom! The State Worker unions helped put the Democrats in power in Sacramento but are finding out that these politicians won’t stand up to the corporations, the big capitalists and the rich because they are owned by them! Labor must stake its political independence to win!

UNION LEADERSHIP SELLS OUT THE WORKERS AGAIN

From Jon Ortiz’s article in the Sac Bee June,10th, “She said she would fight for us,” said Erni Medina, “but I don’t even see where she threw a punch” referring to SEIU president Yvonne Walker who came back from the bargaining table with 4.5% over two years of a three year contract! This is not acceptable! She was mandated to fight for 16% and a bonus of $2,500.00!

Our union leaderships take our dues dollars and give them to the politicians, lawyers and lobbyists instead of organizing the membership! Where is our strike fund? They have no strategy to fight for a fair contract! That is why the Inter-Union Organizing Committee came together! If the union leaderships were doing their job the rank and file would already be organized. So today we must organize ourselves to VOTE NO on the concessionary contracts!

FORM UP ACTION COMMITTEES AT YOUR WORK PLACE

Unite all 1.5 million public workers to fight the austerity and for fair contracts! Unite all workers and social program recipients to make the big finance houses-the bosses pay for their crisis.

Inter-Union Organizing Committee cdphiuoc(at)gmail.com June 18, 2013