Dear Members:

The Union is proud to announce that the Bond Referendum to generate 1.2 billion dollars for refurbishing and replacing and/or updating our schools has passed by a large margin.  Thanks to all of our members who helped and to all of our members who voted.

There were many important candidates and issues voted on and resolved in this election and regardless of your political affiliation or convictions what is most important now is that we come together and work in unison.

There are serious problems facing this Nation, this State, this Country and this Union and we need and appreciate your input and support.

Fraternally,

Joe Cortese

 

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Dear Members:

It has been brought to our attention by Maintenance Management that standby duty will be suspended for all trades except Carpentry until further notice.  It was not explained to us why carpentry was excluded however, it was discussed with us that the Capital Outlay Budget is still underfunded and we were not given any indication as to if or when standby duty will resume.  On page 21, (Section 6) of our contract it clearly indicates that “the bureau/office head of designee may, at his/her discretion establish a category of duty designated as “standby” for any of the trade classifications within the unit”.  This of course also means that they can discontinue/suspend the practice.  We will continue to pursue the reinstatement of “standby” which we feel is a great benefit to the District, Community and especially the Children!  Hopefully this will only be a temporary situation.  If there are any changes we will notify our members as soon as possible.

Fraternally,

Joe Cortese, Business Representative

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Dear Brothers and Sisters:

This is a friendly reminder that our next General Membership meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at the DCSMEC location; 2315 NW 107 Avenue, Miami 33172 in Conference Room 2M8-9 commencing at 4:30pm.  For those of you that did not receive your new 2012-2015 membership card, you can bring your School I.D. badge showing your employee number and if matched on our members list will be admitted into the meeting.  Also for those who did not receive the new membership card should notify the Officer signing you in of any address change so that we may update our records.

Fraternally,

Joe Cortese

Dear Members:

In the next couple of weeks DCSMEC will be mailing out to you your new 2012/2015 DCSMEC membership card and would very much appreciate your contacting the DCSMEC office (305) 477-6002 if you have changed your mailing address. 

Your cooperation is very much appreciated.

Thanking you in advance.

DCSMEC

Dear Members:

Anyone interested in the endorsements for the primary election tomorrow Tuesday, August 14, 2012 to please contact the DCSMEC Union (305) 477-6002 and we will be happy to fax you the necessary information on this.

DCSMEC

 

 

DCSMEC wishes to congratulate and announce the three elected trustees from the July 17, 2012 General Membership meeting as:

ART BOWRA

DAVID SEARS

and

LARRY MORAT

We also thank you all for weathering the terrible storms and for joining your colleagues.

Fraternally,

Rolando Sardiñas

Business Agent

Dear members:

Please be reminded that we will be having our General Membership meeting tomorrow Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at Ronald W. Regan High School, 8600 NW 107 Avenue, Miami, FL  33178 in the school auditorium commencing at 4:30pm.  Also at this meeting we will be electing three DCSMEC trustees, the nominees are:

Art Bowra

David Laws

Larry Morat

Eric Moye

Brian Regan

David Sears

Jorge Valdez

Please make every effort to attend.

Fraternally,

 

Rolando Sardinas

Business Agent

Friday, July 13, 2012

DCSMEC would like to acknowledge the staff of Labor Relations and Compensation Administration who has worked diligently to restore over 150 salaries in a timely manner with minimal problems.
We did however encounter some programmatic issues that are currently being corrected which will not reflect until the following pay period when these members (listed below) will also receive an adjustment (retro) for the difference in pay rate for four (4) days, we regret this inconvenience.

John Cameron, Zone Mechanic

Floro Comesanas, Carpenter II

Roberto Garcia, Zone Mechanic

Ricardo Gispert, Glazier

Margaret Meyer, Carpenter II

Johnny Ranero, Plumber II

Charles Richardson, Carpenter II

Fraternally,

Rolando Sardinas

Business Agent