MEA Communication Opt In Options
When there are important political happenings and crucial local elections, MEA alerts employees using our website and newsletter. However, the City limits MEA’s use of e-blasts to workplace-related issues (which is enumerated in Article 15 of our MOU). With some very important election decisions coming up in 2016 (which have the potential to greatly impact our members), we are reaching […]
Read more >>DSD LMC Update
Meeting notes from the Friday, February 6, 2015 DSD LMC. Staffing update: The FY 2016 budget calls for additional positions while the department continues to fill current vacancies which would restore positions lost in the RIF of prior years. MEA requested that the department continue to monitor for recruitment and retention issues so that MEA can advocate for additional resources […]
Read more >>Larger photos from MEA’s Holiday Party are now available online!
If you took photos in the photo booth at the MEA Holiday Party, and wanted larger prints, they are now available online! Please go to http://gallery.sandiegophotoboothrentals.net/Events/MEA-Holiday-Party-4×6/46367234_C9QWQB and use the password “mea” (all lower case letters). You can then look for your photos and print them out. We hope you had a wonderful time at the Holiday Party and we can’t wait to […]
Read more >>MEA Children’s Party is Sunday, December 7th!
Please join us at the MEA Children’s Party from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, December 7th at the The Boardwalk (1286 Fletcher Parkway, El Cajon, 92020). The day’s festivities will include pizza, drinks, wristbands for unlimited attractions and a visit from Santa. Tickets go on sale on Monday, November 3rd at the MEA Office (9620 Chesapeake Drive, Suite […]
Read more >>Online Voting for MEA Officers is Now Open!
Electronic voting for MEA’s Officer election is now open via MEA’s website! Voting will continue through October 24th in order to ensure that members have ample time to vote. The strength of MEA depends on the active involvement of members like you, and voting in MEA elections is an important aspect of Union participation…so please cast your vote today! Please click here to […]
Read more >>MEA takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and challenges you to donate a few hours of your leave time!
MEA’s leadership and staff were recently presented with the ALS challenge. We took the challenge up and also donated $500 to the cause in honor of MEA member and City employee, Betty Heilig, who has been diagnosed with ALS. MEA is encouraging all of our represented employees to go to our catastrophic leave page and donate a few hours of […]
Read more >>San Diego People’s Climate March
Dear MEA Members, Have you heard?! On September 21st people from around the nation and the world will come together in an unprecedented citizen mobilization for the People’s Climate March in New York City. As world leaders meet at the United Nations climate change summit, hundreds of thousands of marchers will demand the world we know is within our reach: a world with […]
Read more >>DSD LMC Update
The DSD LMC met on August 19, 2014 and discussed the following agenda items: 1. Elevator/Maintenance Issues: The Elevator outage will hopefully be resolved within the week. As of Tuesday, 8/26/14, two elevators are up and running. The outage was caused by a SDG&E power surge that affected multiple buildings in the downtown area. It was this surge that is […]
Read more >>LIBROS Fundraising Assistance
A few of our MEA-represented colleagues in the Library Department are involved in LIBROS, an organization dedicated to the improvement of library and information services for Spanish-speaking people in San Diego. They asked us to publish the following letter to reach out to our membership about an important fundraising effort. Thank you for your consideration! August 25, 2014 To Whom […]
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