Press Events For Tuesday
6:30 AM -- The Engineers and Architects Association, which represents various employees at LAX and the Port of Los Angeles, will hold a protest "demanding equal-pay-for-equal work'' as part of the union's contract negotiations with the city. Department of Water and Power building, 111 N. Hope St.9:00 AM -- LA City Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Recovering Energy, Natural Resources and Economic Benefit from Waste for Los Angeles (RENEW LA) meeting. City Hall, 200 N. Spring St., Room 1010
9:30 AM -- LA County Board of Supervisors meeting. Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 W. Temple St.
9:30AM -- LA Unified School District Board of Education meeting. LAUSD headquarters, 333 S. Beaudry Ave., Room 24-173 and board room
9:30 AM -- LA Police Commission meeting. Parker Center, 150 N. Los Angeles St., Room 150
10:00 AM -- City Controller Laura Chick will hold a news conference to discuss her effort to audit the Los Angeles Unified School District. Council members Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti, Bernard Parks, Jack Weiss and Bill Rosendahl are expected to join her. City Hall, 200 N. Spring St., City Council press room, third floor.
10:00 AM -- LA Zoo Commission meeting. Los Angeles Zoo, 5333 Zoo Drive., Grand Room
2:30 PM -- Police Chief William J. Bratton with some of his command staff, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and members of two families affected by drunk drivers will hold a news conference urging safe driving during the holiday season. A vehicle involved in a DUI-related collision will be displayed. Parker Center, 150 N. Los Angeles St.
3:00 PM -- LA City Council's Budget and Finance Committee meeting. City Hall, 200 N. Spring St., Room 1010
7:00 PM -- Porter Ranch Neighborhood Council will hold a board meeting at 6 p.m. and a council meeting at 7 p.m. in Room 131 at Shepherd of the Hills Church, 19700 Rinaldi St., Porter Ranch. Call (818) 831-2330 or see www.prnc.org.
Posted by Anonymous @ 12/06/2005 07:55:00 AM
25 Comments:
Why have an audit now? Why not 2 years ago? Something smells FISHY.
WE WILL NOT BE STOPPED. EAA ROCKS!!!! LET THIS PUT THE CITY ON NOTICE, WE WILL NO LONGER BE TREATED LESS THAN DWP EMPLOYEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111
How do we get EAA to represent us? As an SEIU 347 member we're stuck with Julie "I got you respect instead of money" Butcher while EAA is addressing the fundemental problem that most city employees are facing except DWP. Instead of supporting EAA's effort on behalf of all of us, she sits quietly in the background wanting us to enjoy all the respect she got us. Fight on EAA. You have more support amongst city employees than you know about.
Signed, SEIU 347 member that needs a COLA.
All the unions should be supporting EAA. It was reported though that Antonio is putting his strong arm tactics to many of them and they're afraid.
Antonio?
Strong arm tactics?
Unions?
You're FUNNY! Next you'll be telling me he's going to fight the ACLU on something.
STOP, you're killing me. The MOST AV would ever say to a union is "wait, until people aren't paying as much attention... then we'll take care of you!"
AV's the same guy who had to go OUTSIDE his district to mark in solidarity (for the cameras) with GROCERY STORE union workers in his first few months as CM of CD14. He had to LEAVE the piss-poor council district he allegedly represented, where there are LESS major retail food chains operating outlets than ANY other district in the city, including South L.A.
You can barely FIND a Ralphs, Vons, Pavilions, Albertsons, or any major chain that took part in that strike, within walking district of CD14's outside boundaries, let ALONE inside them, but there AV was marching somewhere else (while the chains were closing and moving stores OUT of CD14, and leaving blighted empty structures).
I've never felt strong either way about EAA, but SEIU 347 caused this to happen when they sold their members out for Jim Hahn. Give EAA credit, they're doing the right thing and it will benefit all of us if we're smart enough to support them.
MCIA Inspector
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DWP sucks!
Equal work to what?
Most people who work in the private section, who probably get paid less, does more before lunch that 99 percent of you slag civil servants or government employees do all day.
Ah, what's wrong 12:25pm? You respond like a management suck ass.
Gotcha, eh? Is that you Fujioka?
EAA made their stand today in front of my work at DWP. How does the EAA expect support from us IBEW members if you block the freeway entrance and cause many of us to be late to work. That is a weak representation of a strike. Only 500 people? I thought EAA had 8000 members? Some of the DWP employees came out to support the EAA only to hear negative remarks of jealousy. How are we supposed to support that?
Equal pay for equal work? Please! I used to be a part of the city and 90% of the damn city employees do NOT work! They take over 1 hr lunches, 1 hr coffee breaks, shopping at Macy's and at fig plaza, abusing city resources. I transferred out because the work was terrible and insulting. Here at DWP, I'm breaking my back and working overtime 30% of the time!
The mayor and council will not even honor EAA's request for "equal pay." good luck to that.
I love the "DWP sucks" comment. Jealousy at its best. You're just mad because I get paid at least 17-30% more than you do. Sucks for you.
You must have been at some other demonstration than the one EAA conducted at Hope and Temple this morning. EAA complemented the DWP members and their union in doing a great job in representing city employees, which you are one of. As for casting the first stone about people being lazy, I suppose you wrote your comment to this blog from home on your own time you nitwit? The disruption that EAA caused to traffic this morning was no more serious than the disruption you caused to traffic when you knocked out power to 250,000 rate payers. Your holier than thou attitude is as unsupportable as the rest of your comment on this blog. I'm sure you do a great job of attaching your lips to DWP managements ass every day at work. Please keep it at DWP. Your fellow city employees have not looked down their nose at you or any other DWP employee, but it is very apparent from your comment that you hold yourself in very high esteem. I doubt others would share this same high opinion of you.
City Engineer
Has everyone forgotten that 347 willingly accepted the lousy COLA that was stuffed down the other city unions throats? Have you all forgotten that 347 and AFSCME RECOMMENDED this shitty offer to us? 347's President sent a letter to us bragging about what a wonderful offer it was and how great a job our negotiation team had done in getting us respect without money. These whores saddled us with a horrible agreement and now are trying to tell us that they are "spearheading" the effort to gain us money like DWP. They set back all of the city's employees for their own personal reasons and should pay the price with their jobs!
Public Empoyees Unions need to be controlled. There are way too many govt workers, all with their own sweet deals, which will bankrupt the City and the State.
Id suggest the model to be looked at is what happened at the DWP in the late 90s. They got the workforce down to 7,000 workers. Unfortunately its now up to close to 9,000.
But, because unions give so much money they have the politicians ( at least the Dems) by the short hairs.
This will eventually hurt the Dems, as it should.
We need campaign finance reform so all the pigs at the trough- DWP workers, Police Protective League and their 3 day work week, the prison guards and their ridiclous contracts, dont get rewarded for just showing up. The unions are NOT progressive. They dont care about the people they serve and they also dont really look out for the workers they represent, thus the general surly nature of so many workers. Or if not surly, at least indifferent.
A disgusted liberal.
Ok City engineer. That last guy who spoke of ill mannered words towards DWP was true. I was one of the DWP employees that was on the receiving end. You see, I used to be an associate III at BOE and transferred to DWP. When I came out to see the commotion, one of my former coworkers yelled at me and called me a "traitor" with a serious look. How is that appropriate?
What 3:31 spoke of is somewhat true. As a former BOE employee, there are a lot of "uninspired" engineers who do nothing but surf the internet all day and take extremely long lunches. I used to work with someone who would come to work at 10:00 AM leave at 2:00 PM. Honest to god truth. While he was at work, he would be playing online computer games and handling his side business. There were quite a few of these "engineers" around. To say that 3:31 is lying or exagerating is unfair. The overtime that he speaks of is true as well. I, too, have worked a few overtime hours to get projects out on time, Weekends too.
To that guy who said "DWP sucks." If DWP "sucks" as you claim then why do so many city employees want to transfer over? If you are angry about your wage, don't hate on the DWP employees; hate your union leaders for lack of force.
City Engineer:
Uh... There is an inherent difference between the power outage and traffic jam. One is an accidental incident while the other is just deliberate.
It is sad that our union has no real unity. This article says it all
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=70624
12:49 You are stupid! You actually confirmed the allegation of complete laziness.
DWP SUCKS!
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I am a DWP employee. Those of you that are makng comments critical of other city employees are just management shills. First of all, we are city employees just like people you are criticizing. Our only chance is to stick together instead of engaging in squabelling that management is sponsoring. BTW, are you saying that we haven't had employees that are not screwing off all day? Does anyone remember Boylston Street? I will say no more except if we ever expect to get support from other city employees,we have to give support instead of acting like petty jealous school girls. Wise up.
DWP Engineering Associate
How dare you compare a traffic jam to the despicable intentional actions of those responsible for the power outage. I am neither a DWP employee or a city employee, but a hard working mother whose daughter was stuck in a friggin elevator due to the "accidental" power outage. I recall reading that you DWP employees were willing to walk out at the end your contract for even more money than you were already earning without regard for the fact that
it would have left all of us citizens without water and power. You are not any better than the people that caused that enormous traffic jam today. It is really amazing to read this stuff, how you set yourselves apart as if your are noble when you are exactly the same. You are all like a bunch of crabs in a bucket, when one tries to escape the rest drag him back down.
One pissed off Mother
9:06 You truly are a moron. I bet you would not say that if DWP offered you a transfer position. Right? You are only proving to the DWP employees that we are jealous and bitter.
It's almost as ridiculous as them chanting to us:
"We make more than you!"
So please be mature and represent EAA well. I hope that you were not one of the EAA strike members that haggled the DWP employees when we walked by them today.
That time of the month huh PO'd mother? Please, if your daughter were fighting for higher wages at her job, you would not even disagree with her. You know it.
Suck it.
We all want to transfer to DWP so we can have 2hr lunches,drink alcohol during work hours and watch other people work;what a cool gig.You suck D'arcy dogs!
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