You May Be Owed Back Pay

A while ago Detention Tech Dave B. filed a class action grievance regarding incorrect overtime calculations. As many of us learned first hand contacting Sheriff's Office payroll and County payroll was useless. We all remember the rude responses since APEX. So Dave B. filed a grievance. The Sheriff's Office and County denied it so our BA Tom Perkins sent Dave to the Department of Labor informed him about the procedure and who to contact. Dave is now getting backpay and you can too.


You need to add up all of your overtime from July 1, 2008 to October 10, 2009 (APEX inception).

The following info came from Dave B.:

If you feel your overtime was not correctly figured or paid to you and afte rCounty payroll did not help, you should contact Investigator Ferris or the DOLWage & Hour Division Office for assistance.

ATTEN:
V. Ferris InvestigatorUS D.O.L.Wage & Hour Division
Minneapolis, MN612-370-3341 office reception / 612-370-3377 direct line

Dave has a table on the EGROUP. The time table starts at Jul 2008 to Oct 2009 (APEX started) to figure what is backpay owed. The longer anyone waits to request their backpay the less they may be getting. You would need to contact SH.PAYROLL to request any backpay.

The long and short is run your OT, especially if you get Stability Pay, all of that and weekend and night differentials are to be calculated into overtime. APEX does that so you are owed pre-APEX. This is money owed you!

Take a math class Star Tribune!

Maybe someone can interpret this for me:

Star Tribune reporter Matt McKinney is reporting:

15 homicides aside, serious crime drops on North Side

Violent crime is still up on the North Side, but serious crime as a whole has fallen 3 percent there. Star Tribune

The article goes on to say:

The overall trend for violent crime -- rape, murder, robbery and aggravated assault -- shows a 10.2 percent increase in the Fourth Precinct, the name the police use for the North Side. But the area has seen sharp drops in burglary (down 21 percent), arson (down 37 percent) and rape (down 19 percent), and smaller numbers in those categories mean a drop in the total count of Part 1 crimes.

So if I read this correctly, homicides are up, rape, murder, robbery and aggravated assault -- shows a 10.2 percent increase in the Fourth Precinct but burglaries and rapes are down? Yes, rape is up and down.

I don't think I'll be moving there anytime soon! Especially since the fourth precinct had another homicide since this story came out.

Oh and Matt McKinney is the reporter who never ran our No Confidence Vote.

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Nurses Settle: The Power of a Strike

The MNA and Twin Cities hospitals have reached an agreement.

The union also posted a statement to members on its website, saying “all the hospitals’ takebacks and concessions are GONE, the pension is untouched and all the benefits of your current contract (including MNA Health Insurance, etc.) remain in place as they always have been. In essence your entire contract has been completely protected and preserved. We will be having an all-member vote early next week (probably July 6 or 7) to officially ratify the contract.”

The union also agreed to drop a series of unfair-labor practice charges that it had filed against the hospitals during the contentious negotiations, Schriner said. (Full story Star Tribune)

The power of the strike is awesome. The very threat (with the will to follow through) can result in contract settlements. The right to strike is labor's backbone.

Our own Teamsters Local 320 had a strike against Hennepin County in 1981 that resulted in much of what we have today.