Thursday, February 19, 2009

Grievance settled-Shift bid available!

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About 24 hours after a wave of grievances were filed by Teamsters detention deputies the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office made the shif...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

32 grievances in a couple hours!

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32 grievances were filed late dayshift and early mids over the shift bid not being available. At 1730 a jail Inspector called and said the b...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Sheriff's Office Violates Agreement

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On Friday the 13 th of February the HENNEPIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS DIVISION issued a memo stating that: The S...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

DOC Releases Video of Prison Fights

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To bring home the costs of budget cuts and double bunking, something we do regularly, the MN DOC has released video of what goes on behind t...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Labor Management Meet & Confer RE: 28 Days

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Teamsters 320 BA Tom Perkins and your Stewards met with managment and Hennepin County Labor Relations and heard their proposal. (More detail...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

February 10 Union Meeting Info

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The Sheriff's Administration is going to meet with Teamsters and Labor Relations and give us their proposal on the 28 days. We will NOT ...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

IMPORTANT TEAMSTERS UNION MEETING

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Concerned about possible upcoming schedule changes? All detention deputy and tech union members are urged to attend the next union meeting o...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

A Brief History of Our Paid Holidays

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When I started working at the Hennepin County Jail in 1990 Holidays were worked at straight time, lunches were considered unpaid except for...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Riot at JC

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Officials have vowed to review security at the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center after an inmate, two teachers, and a staff member w...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

State of the Union, Recent Grievances

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The following are recent unresolved grievances that the union is representing members on: 2 members grieved being given a 3 day suspension w...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

BLACK LEATHER INFORMATION

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ATTENTION DETENTION DEPUTIES WHO SWITCHED TO BLACK LEATHER I need a list of all detention deputies who purchased new black leather items whe...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

November 2008 Grievance Update

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This past week we resolved/won a grievance for a member who was missing overtime pay for 2 months from the RNC. A step 2 grievance meeting r...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Thanks to all of our Veterans!

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Thank you all Veterans! Freedom isn't free and we are indebted to you!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

When the newspaper gets it wrong

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The story's title in Friday's Star Tribune reads: "Suspect is mistakenly released before burglary charges filed" Mistake?...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Annual Stewards Training

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October 25 th was another excellent stewards training put on by Teamsters Local 320 and the IBT . Topics included a talk on Contract Costin...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Former Chicago cop arrested for torturing inmates in custody

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Ex-Chicago cop arrested in ’90s torture scandal AP -CHICAGO - A former high-ranking Chicago police official was arrested Tuesday on charges ...
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Friday, October 17, 2008

Just emailed in!

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Friday, October 10, 2008

Chicago Sheriff (Cook Co) stops performing forclosure evictions!

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Embedded video from CNN Video Cook County Sheriff's Press Release Wednesday, October 08, 2008 — With Cook County on pace to conduct a re...
Friday, October 03, 2008

U.S. citizens betrayed, U.S. becomes socialist nation

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President Bush, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives voted today to become a socialist nation and no longer follow free market c...

Economic Reality

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-The job market began to deteriorate even before the financial crisis reached a more serious stage two weeks ago. -Over the past year, the a...