Thursday, November 1, 2007

A Message to Fair Share Members.

You might as well upgrade to full membership because, pursuant to Section 3515.7 (b) GC, the DPA has stopped deducting your fair share fee from your paycheck. As a result, if you do not make arrangements to mail your fair share payment into CCPOA, the Ralph C. Dills act does not provide for your continuing representation by CCPOA*.

To continue to reap the benefits of your representation with CCPOA without having to write a check each and every month and mail it in, JOIN CCPOA. Only full members are continuing to have their dues deducted and their representation continued, uninterrupted.

For your further review, the following is an excerpt from a letter recently distributed by CCPOA's Benefits and Trust Fund:

"The DPA has informed the CCPOA that it is no longer entitled to receive fair share fee deductions. As a result, people who were Fair Share are no longer members of the CCPOA and therefore, not eligible for any benefits through the CCPOA Benefit Trust Fund. The last Fair Share fee deduction from their payroll warrant occurred in September 2007. As a result those individuals who were Fair Share no longer have benefits through the Trust as of November 1, 2007. The benefits lost are as follows:

CCPOA Primary Dental •
Western Dental•
CCPOA Vision Service Program (VSP)•
$20,000 Basic Life Insurance •
$5,000 Accidental Death •
Basic Legal Defense Fund•
Basic Family Legal Plan offered through Caldwell Legal•

This action was taken by DPA. There is nothing that the CCPOA or CCPOA Benefit Trust Fund can do about what has happened. If a former Fair Share member has any questions, please direct him/her to contact William Page, Program Manager, Department of Personnel Administration at 916-445-9801."

Gary Clark, President
Chino Chapter
CCPOA

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*REF: Sections 3512, 3513 (k) & 3515.7 (g) GC

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