VISALIA MEETING POSTPONED
The AEU bargaining team has reluctantly decided to postpone the October 20 membership meeting. Over the past two days we have made significant progress, breaking the impasse declared by CSEA and tentatively resolving all of the outstanding non-economic issues, as well as some of the economic ones. But, pension restoration remains a major sticking point and the simple reality is that we cannot make any further progress on that issue until Executive Director Dave Low is present for some candid, face to face discussion. Unfortunately, he will not be available to meet with us until the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23. We are cautiously optimistic that Wednesday’s meeting could result in a tentative agreement that we can bring back to the membership. Given that, it makes little sense to expend the time and money required for a meeting in Visalia where the message would, in effect be “We meet on Wednesday with Dave Low.”
Accordingly, we ask for you to remain patient for a few more days, stand strong and stand united.
Thank you,
Scott, Karen, Val, Debbie, Christopher and Carol
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