1014 Weekend update
Friday January 13, 2017
Good Friday the 13th to Local 1014 brothers and sisters. As we head into this weekend we wanted to bring you up to speed on a few things of importance to our membership. First and foremost, the 2016-2017 Local 1014 Executive Board was sworn into office at the General Membership Meeting on Tuesday January 10th. Brother Frank Lima, former President of United Firefighter of Los Angeles (UFLAC) Local 112 and now International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) 10th District Vice President did the historic honor of swearing in the new Board. This is a little piece of history in the continue great bond and working relationship between Local 1014 and Local 112 making us stronger than ever when united. Local 1014 carried the CPF Resolution at Convention which passed unanimously to support Brother Lima for the IAFF 10th District VP position, uniting all States in the 10th District to elect Lima to the seat. We thank Brother Lima for coming over to Local 1014 Union Hall and doing the honors.
 Thank you to outgoing Board Members Steve De Witt, Dave Lopez and Dave Baumann. They served well and some for many years to work on behalf of the members. It is a selfless sometimes heavy job and these brothers are thanked for their time, energy, passion and dedication to our membership. They will be missed. Congratulations to the returning Executive Board Members with Brother Dave Morse taking my right hand man position of 1st Vice President, and Brother Lew Currier taking the 2nd VP and Secretary Position. John Smolin back at the helm of treasurer and Pat Dolan, Andy Doyle and Mike Jones return to keep up their great work. Congrats to the 3 new Board Members Jason Cervantes, Kurt Kobler and Dominic Finks who join the team as new Directors. We had an Executive Board luncheon and orientation to kick things off, and all three of these brothers bring unique talents and experience to the Executive Board and are clearly ready to work hard on behalf of the membership on all of the issues. It is also an historic election in that we have elected our first African American Brother to the Executive Board with Dominic Finks and he is amply qualified and well experienced on so many issues and we are also not shy about it but damn proud to have an added diversity on the Local 1014 Executive Board and this only adds to our strength. We look forward to the hard work ahead of us and I can assure the membership we have an excellent group of hard charging Executive Board members who will do a great job on behalf of the membership. They have hit the ground running with training and representation of members and heated meetings with Department managers working on operations and EMS issues week one. Good job to all!
Also this week, Local 1014 put forward the name of Brother Andy Doyle to run for the position of California Professional Firefighters (CPF) Trustee. This vacancy became open when Brother Tony Gamboa of UFLAC 112 won the President’s Post at UFLAC. Congratulations to Brother Gamboa on his election and good luck to the UFLAC 12 team heading into the next 2 years also. Brother Andy Doyle is so well respected for his work in the State of California as part of the Local 1014 team on all issues that no other candidate submitted their name for the election even though there were many interested candidates. Andy is well equipped to serve as a Trustee, responsible for oversight as one of 3 Trustees, to watch over the finances and reporting for the CPF. The CPF is our State Union, and I serve as the 7th District Representative for LA County Local 1014, and we represent over 30,000 Professional Firefighters and Paramedics on the Political and Legislative Issues Affecting our Members. Congratulations Brother Doyle, we are proud of you and you will represent Local 1014 and all CPF Members honorably and effectively.
 We would also like to Thank all of our Membership for your hard work and support in taking on Muscular Dystrophy’s Fill the Boot Drive to help raise money for the IAFF traditional charity drive helping out thousands of children and adults affected by Muscle Disease, some our own members and family. Local 1014 raised $195,352 dollars over the 3 day drive. Your efforts are part of a National IAFF Brother and Sister Campaign that dates back over 50 years with Professional Firefighter Support. It’s one of those things that simply represents who we are as professional firefighters who give back to the community. When polled, the citizens we serve have a tremendous amount of respect for our efforts for MDA and that counts as well. Thanks again to all who stepped up and made it happen like the doers we are at Los Angeles County Fire Department. Special thanks to the many, many Battalion Chiefs who are still members and stepped up big this drive to help throughout our 22 Battalions…. More on this in the first quarter newsletter!
Local 1014 continues to work on a few very items of great importance to all of us. The additional days of Vacation that we bargained for and won in Fringe were not being accrued to our members accounts as of the end of 2016. We asked that all members let us know if they were affected and did not receive the hours, and we have been dealing with the County on a Grievance General in Character and a game of chess to get this sorted out. As of now, the Department and the County did not issue an intended ET and the “County Version” of how we were to accrue and use this new vacation time and we are adverse in our positions, but talks continue and we will be meeting with the County again this month. A new development occurred in that our members appear to have been notified they have received the hours on their account with instructions for use. We ask you to notify Local 1014 if you in fact did receive the hours on your check. Please email andydoyle@local1014.org if you received the hours. Also if you got any communication from payroll telling you about the vacation hours please forward that email as well to Director Doyle.
We are also continuing our discussions with the Department on the possibility of Paramedic Assessment Units being transitioned to ranked PM positions. We had no interest in the proposal as originally presented to the Union by the Department and we objected strongly and with threat of administrative, legal and job action response. The Department took a step back and as directed by the Fire Chief came back to the Local with good intent discussion and we are continuing those talks over the next couple of weeks to see if we can reach an agreement on a proposal we like that provides protections to grandfather FFPM’s on the PAU’s and elements of how and where these ranked positions would be implemented. More to come, for now simply watch for more information as it develops. We have an interest in ranked PM engine positions while protecting the FFPM’s in the positions.
Those are the two biggest items in the hotbox right now… there are so many more items to update on also and we will be working to get out our first quarter newsletter in February so keep your eyes open for the latest edition. Thank you to all Local 1014 Members for your support, your hard work and our solidarity with difference of opinion as the base for our strength as a professional Fire Fighter and Fire Personnel Union.
In Solidarity,
President Dave Gillotte and the Local 1014 Executive Board.
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