Headquarters - The UPEC Executive Board will take a road trip to Willows to meet with members on Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 10:00 am. Board member Larry Olsen will be making the arrangements for the meeting location. Business Manager Chris Darker said the Board wants to meet with members where they live and work to hear their issues and provide information. The Board last travelled to Weaverville in October and Alturas last March.
Headquarters - The UPEC Executive Board met yesterday in Redding for their monthly Board meeting and approved a merger of LIUNA Local 270 public and healthcare employees into Local 792. The approval paves the way to transfer the membership of approximately 650 members onto the rolls of Local 792. Business Manager Chris Darker was asked last month by LIUNA Vice President Rocco Davis to consider a proposal to add 19 additional bargaining units into Local 792. Darker met with LIUNA Local 270 Business Manager Carlos Lujan and their Executive Board last week to discuss the change and agreed to propose this to the Executive Board with an implementation date of January 1, 2008.. “I believe this is a good move for our local and for the members of local 270”, stated Darker.
This will be the second merger this year of employees into Local 792. In July, the Executive Board approved moving 500 federal sector members from LIUNA Local 36 in San Francisco into 792. Members from Local 270 are in the south bay area to Pacific Grove. Darker said the Local will need to hire an additional Labor Representative who will be based in the bay area.
REDDING - UPEC’s Law Firm Goyette & Associates, Inc. now offers estate planning as a practice area of the firm with an emphasis on small to mid-size estates. UPEC members receive a free 30 minute consultation and special discounts on this service. A special one hour seminar will be held on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 5:30pm at the UPEC Training Center, 1860 Park Marina Drive in Redding. UPEC members are invited to attend with their spouse. Please contact Andra Amoroso at 530-245-1890 ext. 301 to reserve your seats.
We’re surveying the membership for interest in the “PERKS” Card program, a discount program that can be made available to members through UPEC. Please complete our survey and give us some feedback on your preferences related to the “PERKS” Card discount program!
Click here to take our “PERKS” card survey.
Please complete only one survey per member, responses are validated.
HEADQUARTERS - The top administrator for the LIUNA Pension Fund, Mark Speakes, will visit members of Local 792 December 10 - 12, 2007. Mark works out of LIUNA Headquarters in Washington DC. Local 792 has hundreds of members who participate in the Laborers Industrial Pension Fund. Business Manager Chris Darker invites Fund administrators to the Local every other year so members have an opportunity to meet face to face. Meetings will be held in Weaverville, Yreka, Alturas, Willows and Redding either during lunch or at 5:00pm. A post card announcement will be mailed out to members in the next two weeks. There are several changes to the Fund for 2008. Members will receive a letter in the mail from the Pension Fund in the next couple of weeks. Members are encouraged to update their addresses and other personal information prior to the meeting to ensure they receive updates and their annual statement.
HEADQUARTERS - National Park Service Rangers will soon have additional protection. Business Manager Chris Darker announced today that the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) Legal Defense Fund (LDF) will work with Local 792 to cover their NPS Rangers. UPEC began representing NPS Rangers in July 2007 in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA). Darker met with the LDF Trustees this week in Southern California. “This decision by the LDF trustees is huge for our Rangers”, stated Darker. The Fund will offer civil and criminal coverage/representation. Darker also assisted LIUNA representatives from the LIUNA Midwest Region this past week in gaining approval for coverage for their law enforcement officers in Illinois and hopefully in the near future for officers in Missouri.