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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Notice of MEA Officer Election

It is time once again for Officer elections at MEA. Article V of MEA’s Bylaws details the rules that govern our Union’s elections. Those rules call for the announcement of procedures to be used to nominate Officer candidates. If you qualify and would like to run for office, please stop by or contact MEA at 619.264.6632 and we will send […]

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Changes Coming to Your Paycheck after July 1, 2014

This is just a reminder that the second year of our current labor contract for MEA-represented employees takes effect on July 1, 2014. For most MEA-represented employees, this means: The end of mandatory furlough. The remaining 26 hours of mandatory furlough will be eliminated, meaning the corresponding pay deduct (equal to about 1.4% of salary) that went along with it […]

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