Walker thinks he can cripple our union by making payroll deduction for union dues illegal. By re-committing to our union and continuing membership, we are standing strong and sending a message: Walker can’t legislate away our union, he can’t decide that we don’t have power, he doesn’t decide – we do.

To join in building our union, click the button below and continue your union membership and our ability to fight Walker, his agenda and the stripping of our rights. You’ll be redirected to a secure website where you can sign up to continue your membership no matter what Walker says. This information is for union purposes only and will never be shared with an outside party. Deductions will only begin if payroll dues deduction is eliminated, and your information will be kept secure.

We can build our union and take back Wisconsin. It’s all up to us. Who decides? We decide!

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Union members and their children can apply for the Union Plus Scholarship, offering scholarship awards from $500 to $4,000. This year’s scholarship deadline is soon:  Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012.    Click Here for details. 

In the summer of 2010, WPEC members at the Department of Health Services (DHS) reported concerns about the growing number of vendor employees working at DHS.  They were concerned that these vendor employees were being hired through the Medicaid Fiscal Agent contract with EDS-HP to perform duties that were not directly part of that contract. In response, WPEC requested a number of Medicaid contract documents.   A WPEC employee also filed a complaint with the LAB Fraud and Abuse Hotline that many of these hires seemed inappropriate because they were outside the scope of the contract and also noted that the  HP Account Executive overseeing these hires was a former DHS employee. 

LAB has not yet formally responded to the Hotline Complaint, but an LAB audit of the Medicaid program released in December of 2011 addressed some of the concerns.   They reported on the high number of vendor employees, the lack of involvement of purchasing professionals in these contract decisions, and the lack of oversight of this large new vendor workforce.  

To see copies of some of the documents, Click Here. 

Members of any public employee union and their spouses, friends and significant others are invited.  The next social is scheduled for Thursday, January, 12 at the Labor Temple on Park Street.  Click Here for more details or to get a copy of the flyer. 

We periodically ask for a list of the vacant positions from DOA. The lists we get do NOT include the University of Wisconsin, the State Legislature or the Wisconsin Court System.   The list from June 2011 showed 4,890 vacant agency positions. 

According to the Wisconsin Budget Report, April 2011, "Wisconsin continues its trend of having fewer state and local employees per capita than the national average, according to numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. The number of state and local employees per capita in Wisconsin stayed about the same from 2008 to 2009, and remained well below the national average.   Click Here for more details.    

We sometimes hear about job vacancies.  We're posting them here while they're current.

Here are the links to the comp plan approved by the Joint Committee on Employment Relations (JCOER).   Unlike union contracts which have to be approved by the entire Legislature, the Comp Plan only needs to be approved by the JCOER before going to the Governor for signature. 

The Comp Plan: 

http://oser.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=7341

OSER Summary:

http://oser.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=7275

OSER Letter to State Employees:

http://oser.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=7274

UW Compensation Submittal to OSER:

http://oser.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=7277 

Changes in Wisconsin Election Law

The Madison City Clerk has put together a pamphlet summarizing the recent changes to Wisconsin election laws.  Although it's put out by the City of Madison, most of what it says applies statewide. 

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