This is the link to the 2011 Non-Germane Objector (NGO) all-in-one form:
(Available again next year… June 2012…. See you then!)
Submitting this 2011 NGO form will:
1 – Cancel your SEIU Membership
2 – Instruct SEIU to reduce your Fair Share Fees by that portion of their activities that are Non-Germane to Bargaining
3 – Specify to SEIU that your are filing for Non-Germane Objector status
4 – State that you are Challenging SEIU’s calculations of the Non-Germane portion of your Union Dues
5 – Document that you are Appointing CPPEA’s Ken Hamidi as your representative for all legal matters pertaining to the NGO
Whether you are a member or not this form will cover you and will qualify you for Non-Germane Objector status, meaning you won’t have to pay that portion of Union Dues that is not explicitly used for Germane Union Bargaining of our contracts, and/or Representation by SEIU.
Estimates of the Non-Germane portion of our Union Dues have ranged from 75% to 95% of union dues. That means you could get a 75% to 95% “discount” on your Union Dues and SEIU must still represent you, just as though you were a full dues-paying member. See the Pay Stub below!
The issue is: Who gets to tell you how much of your dues are being spent on non-germane activities? The answer is: SEIU, the Union spending your money! Sounds a lot like “putting the Fox in charge of the Hen House”, doesn’t it? So the law gave us the ability to Challenge SEIU’s calculations of the Non-Germane portion of our Dues in an Arbitration Hearing.
This form automatically makes all of us challengers which will allow us to force SEIU to reveal what they are actually doing with our $63 million of Union Dues paid to them annually.
In last year’s Arbitration, SEIU and the Arbitrator wouldn’t allow CPPEA’s Ken Hamidi to speak on our behalf, because he didn’t have signed permission from all challengers. This year’s Form will give Ken that documented permission to ask SEIU hard questions on our behalf, and to force greater transparency, and adherence to established law and guidelines, from SEIU.
Here are just a few of the established guidelines ignored by SEIU last year, that CPPEA’s Ken Hamidi will try to force SEIU to follow this year:
a. Force SEIU to permit member input on who is assigned the role of the Arbitrator.
b. Force SEIU to agree to multiple locations for the arbitration this year, preferably in Sacramento, Bay Area, Fresno, LA, and San Diego.
c. Force SEIU to agree on an Arbitration date, day (preferably a Saturday) and time, that is more convenient for members to attend and participate.
d. File a subpoena to require SEIU to reveal the details of the SEIU expenditures being spent in preparation for the NGO Arbitration, and if like last year, SEIU doesn’t provide the required information, Ken Hamidi will file for an injunction with PERB until they provide the information.
Below is the verbatim language of the law/government code pertaining to the Dills Act:
3515.8. Return of part of fair share fee:
Any state employee who pays a fair share fee shall have the right to demand and receive from the recognized employee organization, under procedures established by the recognized employee organization, a return of any part of that fee paid by him or her which represents the employee’s additional pro rata share of expenditures by the recognized employee organization that is either in aid of activities or causes of a partisan political or ideological nature only incidentally related to the terms and conditions of employment, or applied towards the cost of any other benefits available only to members of the recognized employee organization. The pro rata share subject to refund shall not reflect, however, the costs of support of lobbying activities designed to foster policy goals and collective negotiations and contract administration, or to secure for the employees represented advantages in wages, hours, and other conditions of employment in addition to those secured through meeting and conferring with the state employer. The board may compel the recognized employee organization to return that portion of a fair share fee which the board may determine to be subject to refund under the provisions of this section.
3515.7. (g) Maintenance of membership or fair share fee deduction:
(g) An employee who pays a fair share fee shall be entitled to fair and impartial representation by the recognized employee organization. A breach of this duty shall be deemed to have occurred if the employee organization’s conduct in representation is arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.
Here is the link for both of the above statutes: http://www.perb.ca.gov/laws/statutes.asp#ST3515_7
This link is for a Downloadable Flyer version of one of last year’s Non-Germane Objector’s pay stub
Follow the link above to a Pay Stub from one of last year’s Non-Germane Objectors. Total SEIU Union Dues paid out monthly: $3.25 !
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