As the state legislature was battling over the budget Friday, one of the most controversial issues was the potential loss of the longevity payments that longtime state employees currently receive.<\/p>\n
Only those with more than 10 years of service receive the payments, and a Democratic-written budget plan would end those payments for non-union employees.<\/p>\n
With that as a backdrop, the Connecticut State Employees Association – SEIU Local 2001 – sent out an e-mail Friday to legislative employees and asked them to join the union. The authorization card states, “I authorize CSEA\/SEIU Local 2001 to represent me in collective bargaining on wages, hours and working conditions with my employer.”<\/p>\n
The card must include the employee’s name, home address, home phone, and job title, and it must be in the “employee’s own handwriting.”<\/p>\n
The e-mailed letter is as follows:<\/p>\n
March 26, 2010<\/p>\n
In today’s economic climate, employees, like you, continue to struggle to maintain benefits that they have enjoyed for many years. At this time, legislative employees are at risk of losing their longevity and possibly other benefits.
Now is the time for legislative employees to come together and protect their longevity. The only way to do this is to organize as a union and secure a legally binding contract with the Connecticut General Assembly.
CSEA SEIU L2001 represents more than 22,000 active public sector workers and retirees. We are a Local of the nation’s fastest growing labor union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and the largest union in Connecticut.
If you are ready to protect your benefits and have a say in your future, fill out the attached representation card for CSEA SEIU L2001 and send back to us. <\/p>\n
The letter continued,<\/p>\n
“By signing this card you are expressing your choice to join CSEA SEIU L2001. Once a majority of legislative employees have signed up, CSEA SEIU Local 2001 will demand voluntary recognition of our union from legislative leadership and request to bargain a collective bargaining agreement for you. As the state legislature was battling over the budget Friday, one of the most controversial issues was the potential loss of the longevity payments that longtime state employees currently receive. Only those with more than 10 years of service receive the payments, and a Democratic-written budget plan would end those payments for non-union employees. With that as a backdrop, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
To join CSEA SEIU L2001, fill in your information on the attached card, sign and date the card. Send back the card as an attachment via email to: smalitz@csea760.com<\/a> or mail to: CSEA SEIU L2001, 760 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106.
All information is strictly confidential. For more information contact, Stacey Malitz, Organizing Director, CSEA SEIU L2001, at smalitz@csea760.com<\/a>. You may also visit our website at www.csea-ct.com.”<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"