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James
Ward Second Vice President
E-mail: Sqd6143@aol.com
At our September Open Meeting, we had almost half of our
active membership present to hear Commissioner Mulvey
speak on all the budget cuts and personnel moves that he
has made. The
majority of the members I spoke with were extremely
disappointed in his explanation. Everyone on the job knows the County is in financial trouble.
The whole country is in trouble.
However, the Commissioner has decided that the
S.O.A. should be the union that suffers pain.
The S.O.A. is the only union that “fly’s”; he has
decided to violate our “minimum manning” when
overtime is required; he put detective supervisors on
patrol; he has eliminated stand-by for many of our
supervisors, yet he still expects them to answer their
phone; he has circumvented our contract to save a few
bucks by sending police officers to supervisor school
and then promoting them only weeks after their
completion; he has almost eliminated supervision in our
Emergency Services Bureau by having the E.S.U.
supervisors work as full time highway supervisors; he
has removed the C.O. of the Firearm’s Training Unit
from the Deadly Force Response Team; he has refused to fill administrative
positions in Records Bureau resulting in almost no
supervision of many of our vital records and the list
goes on and on……
WHY US ??? That’s
what we want to know.
I think the Commissioner owes it to all the
supervisors to let us know why he has targeted the
S.O.A. I
urge him to answer us whether it’s in writing or by
attending our Board of Governors meeting or coming back
to an Open Meeting.
There are 2750 sworn members of this Department.
He cannot balance the budget on the backs of 422
supervisors.
Re-Opener
The
results of our re-opener will be released at the same
time our arbitration award comes out.
It is unknown if Mr. Scheinman will issue a
separate award or include it in our contract arbitration
award. The
issues we addressed in the re-opener were stipends for
various units placed into their base salary, increase in
meal money for extraditions and the county support for
disciplinary arbitration legislation.
Minimum
Manning Grievance
An
arbitrator will be selected shortly.
In the interim award, Mr. Scheinman directed that
this grievance be heard prior to the end of the year.
Hopefully, this deadline will be met.
Arbitration
Prohibited from speaking about as per New York State
Taylor Law.
Stand-by,
part two
The
details of this grievance were submitted to Mr.
Scheinman. We
are hoping that he rules that the county must go forward
with this grievance. He is not the arbitrator in this grievance.
We are asking him to direct the county to go
forward with this grievance.
It was filed almost two years ago and needs to be
heard.
Stay
safe out there.
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