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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attention Important Announcement Required for all CDL/Hoisting License Holders -- Deadline Jan 30, 2014 Mass DOT/CDL Self-Certification Form Click Here to download and Print Form --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/27/2013 - Somerville officials mull installing GPS units in city cars 11/24/2013 - New Anti Harassment Discrimination Policy City of Somerville 11/24/2013 - Fairness in the Workplace article Discrimination 11/15/2013 - Somerville Patch News - Somerville to Enlist Full-Time Health Inspector Statements from Candidates for Election Retirement Board
------------------------------------------------------------------ 11/11/2013 - Public to Speak Out on How Aldermen Fill Vacancies Public meeting on Tuesday - New Article By Somerville Patch 11/10/2013 - Boston Globe Article Somerville Mayor Loses Key allies on board 11/06/2013 - REMINDER: Sign up to be a SMEA Representative (due by 11/15/2013) 11/06/2013 - Election Department - City of Somerville - Unoffical Totals 11/06/2013 - Somerville Journal (Wicked Local) - Somerville Election Totals 11/06/2013 - The Somerville Time - Somerville Election Totals Dear Members, Although we haven't attached the e mails for these committee members that will be conducting the hearing on Oct 31st on Healthcare reform bill 59,we have pasted their names below. in the event our members would like to go on https://malegislature.gov/People/Search to find their e mail and inform them that they are strongly opposed to this house bill 59. Special Commission Members: Henry Dormitzer, Co-Chair of the Special Commission Anne Wass, Co-Chair of the Special Commission Representative Frederick Barrows Shawn Duhamel, Retired State, County, and Municipal Employees Association of Massachusetts Senator John A. Hart Al Gordon, Designee of Treasurer Steven Grossman Senator Michael R. Knapik Gregory Mennis, Assistant Secretary for Fiscal Policy, Designee of Secretary of Administration and Finance Jay Gonzalez Dolores Mitchell, Executive Director of the Group Insurance Commission Daniel Morgado, Shrewsbury Town Manager, Massachusetts Municipal Association Andrew Powell, Massachusetts AFL-CIO Representative John Scibak, House Chairman of the Joint Committee on Public Service 10/27/2013 - Letter sent to State Senators and Representatives 11/15/2013 - Reply Letters for local State Legislators Opposing House Bill 59 Healthcare reform proposed by Governor Deval Patrick
Pension-Fund Looters Get Tax Breaks, Too By MATT TAIBBI 
Rhode Island State Treasurer Gina Raimondo, a Democrat, has declared war on public pensions AP Photo/Steven Senne A few weeks ago, I wrote a feature on pension reform in states like Rhode Island for Rolling Stone. Since the piece was sharply critical of alternative investments like hedge funds, I expected a heated response, and got one right away. In fact, a series of raving/chest-thumping emails from one Manhattan Institute hedge fund billionaire appeared in my email inbox about four and a half seconds after the piece went live on the Rolling Stone website. Click on this link to read the complete article http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/pension-fund-looters-get-tax-breaks-too-20131004 Boston Herald Opinion Article by Charles Krauthaummer is a syndicated columnist http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/11/obamacare_s_trickery_laid_bare Home » News & Opinion » Opinion » Op-Ed Obamacare’s trickery laid bare obamasketch dr.jpg 
OBAMA: Believes he and liberals know what’s best for U.S. consumers. Sunday, November 3, 2013 PrintEmail Comments (13) By: Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON — Every disaster has its moment of clarity. Physicist Richard Feynman dunks an O-ring into ice water and everyone understands instantly why the shuttle Challenger exploded. This past week, the Obamacare O-ring froze for all the world to see: Hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters went out to people who had been assured a dozen times by the president that “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan. Period.” The cancellations lay bare three pillars of Obamacare: (a) mendacity, (b) paternalism and (c) subterfuge. Dear Members How they are stealing our pensions published by Rolling Stone Magazine. Very good read. 
In the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring bankruptcy in the face of what it claimed were insurmountable pension costs, the state of Rhode Island took bold action to avert what it called its own looming pension crisis. Led by its newly elected treasurer, Gina Raimondo – an ostentatiously ambitious 42-year-old Rhodes scholar and former venture capitalist – the state declared war on public pensions, ramming through an ingenious new law slashing benefits of state employees with a speed and ferocity seldom before seen by any local government. Click the link below to read the complete article http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926 5 Very important links concerning our healthcare retirement(see each link) 1) - HALLOWEEN HEARING SET FOR RETIREE HEALTHCARE REFORM 2) - Deval Patrick recommended healthcare reform bill 3) - MWRA Proposed healthcare retirement changes 4) - OPEB Healthcare Reform Outline Changes 5) - HR 59 Healthcare Reform Letter from SMEA to Membership
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"In Somerville, the legislature’s new health care collective bargaining laws allowed the administration to change the rules in the middle of the game, preventing municipal unions from having their voice heard and vote counted at the bargaining table. It’s not fair in sports and it’s not fair in your workplace." Call your legislator and ask them to do the right thing Restore the 70% rule Give voice to all in collective bargaining! (Download the Somerville Labor Coalition's response: "More Than We Bargained For"). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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