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Got a stooge of a supervisor that likes to ride the guys hard or blow smoke up at upper managements' stink hole?  Do these individuals run the workplace like their personal fiefdom and oppress the

April 2020 General Meeting Will Be Held As A Teleconference

Hello general membership, in light of what is currently happening in society and throughout our county as a result of the spread of coronavirus, we will be holding our April 2020 General Meeting th

Happy Thanksgiving to Our Members

This message brought to you from Local 119 President Harry Wong...

First Annual Holiday Party

To our fellow Local 119 family come and join our first ever holiday get together at "The Stinking Rose".  Tickets for this event is $25/person please RSVP and pay by Oct 3rd, 2019.  Please contact Harry Wong at 310-713-6189 or Gary Hodge 714-353-1817. 

See flyer below and also open attached pdf to see the menu...

A Holiday Message From AFSCME Council 36 President Andy Jung

This Labor Day, We Have New Reason to Celebrate – and to Keep Fighting

With Labor Day around the corner, working people have a lot to celebrate, past and present. That includes a new Gallup poll revealing public support for labor unions has reached 64%—a near 50-year high by some accounts. Compare that to the headlines just one year ago, in which public sector unions like ours were existentially threatened by an anti-labor crusade to weaken workers’ rights through the infamous Janus v. AFSCME decision.

Lets Show Our Support for Kathryn Barger

Well it's almost that time again, yup re-election for one of the most important positions within Los Angeles County.  Ms Kathryn Barger is up for re-election in 2020 for the coveted post of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor's fifth district seat.  For those of you that are not aware Ms Barger has been an outspoken advocate of Local 119 while she has been in the position as a Supervisor of LA County.  Supervisor Barger has thrown her support on many agendas' that our local has pushed such as insourcing of jobs back into the county. 

Understanding Workers' Compensation

For those that are interested in touching on more knowledge regarding labor and workers' compensation law please look into this course offered at Los Angeles Trade Tech College.  This course will be instructed by Scott Ford and Cherly Wallach from the Law Firm of Ford & Wallach.  AFSCME Local 119 advocates for it's members to more proactive in their pursuit of knowledge especially when it comes to workplace issues so that your supposed superiors do not overstep and infringe upon your rights.

Please see attached pdf for more info and details.

Congratulations Jackie Goldberg

On May 11th 2019 Gary Hodge, Luis DelCid, Andy Jung, and  Harry Wong attended a fund raiser for Jackie Goldberg to endorse and support her as labor’s candidate to the LAUSD School Board. 

 This intimate event was held  at Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s home, with the support of fellow Supervisors Janice Hahn, Hilda Solis, and Kathryn Barger.

 A $500.00 contribution was unanimously approved by your E-Board for her LAUSD election campaign.  This contribution came from our PAC Fund.

Agreement Reached Between CCU and LA County

To those that were not present at tonight's meeting on 5-2-19, the latest and greatest news in regards to our "Fringe Benefit" package is the County Coalition of Unions (CCU) and the County have reached a final agreement.  AFSCME members at the benefits negotiation meetings fought long and hard for a fair deal that would be comparable to that given to SEIU members.  Big thanks to Robert Leonard and all those present at the benefits negotiations for pushing forward and not settling for the lowball and unfair offers made by the County for the past 6 months.  Our fringe package is as follows,

Don't Be a Pushover. Know Your Legal Rights

Injuries, workers compensation issues, work stress due to accomodations can be detrimental to your mental and physical health.  Sometimes it's just better when you can get the proper legal advice and representation of a lawyer.  For the most part employers and its management team are there to assist you in your time of need either due to injury or some other work related issues with accomodations, etc.  But there are times when you may have a bonehead of a supervisor that may over step the boundaries of what is legally allowed and infringe upon your legal rights.  Well thats when you need t

Finally our contract and MOU has been approved

For those that were not present at tonight's monthly general meeting, it was annouced that our contract was presented to the Board of Supervisors and has been approved on March 5th 2019.  What this means for the members' of Local 119 is pay raises will be applied and back paid all the way from October 1st of 2018.  The current cost of living raise that will be issued from October 2018 is 2%.  Local 119 members should be seeing this reflected on their payroll by the 30th of March.