Newsletter August 15, 2007

Wisconsin State Employees Union (WSEU), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

September Membership Meeting

Our monthly Membership Meeting will be taking place, Thursday, September 13th at 6:00 p.m. at the Memorial Union. This is the first meeting after the summer break.

Did you know? We will reimburse reasonable expenses for Child Care to attend Local Union meetings. If you have any questions please contact us at local2412@sbcglobal.net.

Committee Reconvenes Tomorrow

The Committee on Conference will be meeting tomorrow at 10:00 am in room 412 East, where they will continue to work on the budget compromise. Our Union presence has been growing, and we need to continue to keep the pressure on the members of the Committee. We ARE being noticed, and your participation continues to be important.

The Vigil continues in the Capitol Rotunda, Tuesday through Thursdays. Prime time is between 10am-2pm every day.

THE UNION IS YOU!

Local 2412 Members at last Thursday’s Committee Meeting

Sample Correspondence to Legislator
From: John Kreis, state employee at Red Granite Correctional Facility
To: Rep. Nass

“Mr. Nass I arrived home, on August 2nd, from a long day working (how you apparently feel) lucrative position as a Correctional Officer at Redgranite Correctional Institution. You know, that is one of them (how you feel) well funded, (how you feel) safe, (how you feel) secure and definitly (how you feel) Not Over Crowded Wisconsin Prisons. I opened up my e-mail and found your missives on the Wisconsin budget (ala the taxpayers alliance, the WMC and others). Now I am not a "lobbyist" nor a corporate ceo; and I don't have a staff nor a think tank to spoon feed me numbers to fit my political agenda and political contributors (like you).  I mostly knew that you guys mainly report in to work on Tuesday (Monday must be some kind of recurring legislative holiday or something). So I figured I would spend the rest of Friday and, my off work hours Saturday and Sunday, and sort of "fact check" your attempt to burry my personal points on the ARC Budget proposal.”

Read complete emails on our Members Only site at http://www.danenet.org/local2412, click on Members Only link on the left.

Important Update on Local Agreement
LIBRARY FLEX-TIME AGREEMENT

We have reached a new Local Agreement. An important part of it has been the renegotiation of the library flex-time agreement. Library employees who participate in the flex-time arrangement should be receiving their appropriate evening and weekend shift differentials this pay period. If you do not, please contact the local office at local2412@sbcglobal.net, or call 257-2803.

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