Supervisors’ Right to Membership. When supervisors are first hired to Supervisory and Managerial positions, they are sometimes told, or erroneously believe, that they can no longer be a member of ANY union, let alone retain their membership in CAPS. Membership in CAPS is just as important for Supervisors and Managers as it is for the Rank-and-File.
All State Scientific Supervisors and Managers have the right to maintain and/or seek union membership. It’s covered in the “Excluded Employees Bill of Rights,” specifically in Government Code Section 3530. It says, in relevant part, “Excluded employee organizations shall have the right to represent their excluded members in their employment relations, including grievances, with the State of California…“
CAPS has represented supervisors in their employment with state management since its founding in 1984. Membership in CAPS is the right choice for EVERY State Scientist. CAPS fights to improve and protect the rights and employment conditions for State Scientists at the worksite, with management, with CalHR on salary and benefit issues, before state boards and commissions, in the Legislature, with the media, and in court when necessary.
CAPS is here to protect (and improve) your pay, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment, and to ensure that if you need individual representation, you’ll get it! Help your colleagues get that individual representation by encouraging them to sign up today here, and if they fill in the “referred by” section with your name, you’ll get a recruitment bonus of $50!
Is Your New Year’s Resolution to Save Money? Membership comes with benefits, one of which includes a host of consumer discounts curated by CAPS for your benefit. Some good discounts to capitalize on to ensure you’re saving money, but still living your best life include:
- Anheuser-Busch Theme Parks/SeaWorld – adults pay the kids’ price, and kids admission is even less;
- Boomers Parks – theme parks with locations in Livermore, Modesto, Santa Maria, El Cajon, Fountain Valley, Irvine, San Diego, and Upland in California, as well as Boca Raton, Florida and Houston, Texas;
- California’s Great America;
- Knott’s Berry Farm;
- Legoland California (Carlsbad);
- Monterey Bay Aquarium;
- Whitewater Rafting (Northern California); and much, much more!
Visit the Members-Only Section of the CAPS Website to view the Discounts and find out more information.
News Briefs.
New wave of chicken-killing Newcastle disease hits Southern California. It’s been a poor holiday season for Southern California’s chickens. In recent weeks, new cases of the poultry-killing Newcastle disease hit San Bernardino, Riverside and Los Angeles counties, reviving an epidemic that state officials believed was nearing its end as recently as last summer. Since May 2018, when the disease was identified in the region, 1.2 million birds in the area have been euthanized. Careless bird owners who haven’t followed protocol for the highly contagious virus – including individuals who’ve ignored quarantines – are to blame, according to State Veterinarian Annette Jones.
Citrus greening disease attacks Corona trees, putting city in quarantine area. The discovery of a dozen diseased fruit trees in Corona has fanned fears that citrus greening disease may soon ravage commercial orchards in Riverside County. Because of the finding, agriculture officials have expanded a sprawling Southern California quarantine area by 107 square miles, adding Corona, Norco and part of Chino, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.