Tired of attacks on your modest benefits?

Tired of mandatory pay cuts?

Tired of being afraid of retiring in poverty?

Tired of the threat of layoffs?

Join ACSS and take a stand to protect your career!

Lobby Day Details (more to come):

Lobby Day is ACSS’ most effective annual event for getting our message to legislators. This is the day we “March on the Capitol” to talk to our representatives in person about excluded employees’ issues. Face-to-face meetings – whether at the Capitol or in district office visits – are the most valuable tool for getting lawmakers to understand and respond to our needs.

January Board Meeting: January 20-22, 2012 in San Francisco. (Details on the home page.)

The 1st Quarter Board Meeting will be focused on preparing for Lobby Day. Attendees will have a chance to learn more about our issues, hear from legislators, and more!

Interactive Training: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 in Sacramento

Starts at 5:30 p.m. Dinner followed by training at the DoubleTree Hotel. Whether this is your first or fifth Lobby Day, this training will arm you with the best strategies for making a successful legislator visit.

Lobby Day: Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Detailed schedule to come.

RSVP: Use the form on the left to RSVP and request a hotel room and/or ACSS shirt as needed. ACSS is master-billing the hotel rooms for the night of March 13 only, but you must have your chapter president’s prior approval. Call ACSS HQ at 800-624-2137 or email mmckenzie@calcsea.org if you have questions. 

Attire: All Lobby Day attendees must wear ACSS green shirts. Order your complimentary (yup, they're free!) shirts right in the RSVP form.

Room/Meals:  We are master-billing a block of rooms at the DoubleTree Hotel. Make your hotel reservations on the registration form at left. The hotel has parking.

ACSS will provide your dinner March 13 and your breakfast and lunch March 14. You will be reimbursed at the ACSS rate for any other allowable expenses you may incur.

NOTE: Members wear ACSS shirts for Lobby Day! Don't forget to tell us in the RSVP form if you need a shirt.

Tired of attacks on your modest benefits?

Tired of mandatory pay cuts?

Tired of being afraid of retiring in poverty?

Tired of the threat of layoffs?

Join ACSS and take a stand to protect your career!

Lobby Day Details (more to come):

Lobby Day is ACSS’ most effective annual event for getting our message to legislators. This is the day we “March on the Capitol” to talk to our representatives in person about excluded employees’ issues. Face-to-face meetings – whether at the Capitol or in district office visits – are the most valuable tool for getting lawmakers to understand and respond to our needs.

January Board Meeting: January 20-22, 2012 in San Francisco. (Details on the home page.)

The 1st Quarter Board Meeting will be focused on preparing for Lobby Day. Attendees will have a chance to learn more about our issues, hear from legislators, and more!

Interactive Training: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 in Sacramento

Starts at 5:30 p.m. Dinner followed by training at the DoubleTree Hotel. Whether this is your first or fifth Lobby Day, this training will arm you with the best strategies for making a successful legislator visit.

Lobby Day: Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Detailed schedule to come.

RSVP: Use the form on the left to RSVP and request a hotel room and/or ACSS shirt as needed. ACSS is master-billing the hotel rooms for the night of March 13 only, but you must have your chapter president’s prior approval. Call ACSS HQ at 800-624-2137 or email mmckenzie@calcsea.org if you have questions. 

Attire: All Lobby Day attendees must wear ACSS green shirts. Order your complimentary (yup, they're free!) shirts right in the RSVP form.

Room/Meals:  We are master-billing a block of rooms at the DoubleTree Hotel. Make your hotel reservations on the registration form at left. The hotel has parking.

ACSS will provide your dinner March 13 and your breakfast and lunch March 14. You will be reimbursed at the ACSS rate for any other allowable expenses you may incur.

NOTE: Members wear ACSS shirts for Lobby Day! Don't forget to tell us in the RSVP form if you need a shirt.

The power of the ACSS political action committee – our new PAC – was clearly evident at this year’s Lobby Day, March 16. As members completed their legislative visits, they reported again and again that “everybody knows our name.” Many more legislators than in past years were aware of ACSS and knew whom we represent.

The members of the PAC, formed in 2010 and supported by dues, volunteered hundreds of hours this past year to take part in political events all over the state. Led by Chairman Frank Ruffino, the PAC built relationships with legislators and the governor – the people with the most influence over excluded employees’ salaries and benefits. Lobby Day 2011 proved the effort worked.

Headquarters staff reorganized member training to simplify the logistics, and members reported great results. Again this year, every legislator received either a personal visit or a hand-delivered ACSS packet of information.

ACSS activists discussed several issues with their legislators, including extending the tax increases enacted in 2009 and resolving pay discrepancies, succession needs and compaction of salaries between supervisors and rank and file. Most legislators responded positively. Sen. Alex Padilla of San Bernardino is already focused on succession. He is working with DPA to ensure the state has qualified employees to replace the huge number of supervisors expected to retire in the near future. “The state must continue to have strong supervisorial employees,” he said. “How to do it is a key issue for me.”

Padilla was impressed with ACSS’ visit. “Thank you for your work,” he said. “I don’t often see participation at this kind of level.”

At the Ice Cream Social, the traditional close to Lobby Day, members recapped the event and dubbed it a success. The legislators “really listened,” they said. “They are more open to having discussions on the issues,” said board member Todd D’Braunstein.

Treasurer Elena Yuasa found the legislators “understand that the supervisors are an asset to the state, and they are willing to work with us … to come up with ideas to improve California.”

The power of the ACSS political action committee – our new PAC – was clearly evident at this year’s Lobby Day, March 16. As members completed their legislative visits, they reported again and again that “everybody knows our name.” Many more legislators than in past years were aware of ACSS and knew whom we represent.

The members of the PAC, formed in 2010 and supported by dues, volunteered hundreds of hours this past year to take part in political events all over the state. Led by Chairman Frank Ruffino, the PAC built relationships with legislators and the governor – the people with the most influence over excluded employees’ salaries and benefits. Lobby Day 2011 proved the effort worked.

Headquarters staff reorganized member training to simplify the logistics, and members reported great results. Again this year, every legislator received either a personal visit or a hand-delivered ACSS packet of information.

ACSS activists discussed several issues with their legislators, including extending the tax increases enacted in 2009 and resolving pay discrepancies, succession needs and compaction of salaries between supervisors and rank and file. Most legislators responded positively. Sen. Alex Padilla of San Bernardino is already focused on succession. He is working with DPA to ensure the state has qualified employees to replace the huge number of supervisors expected to retire in the near future. “The state must continue to have strong supervisorial employees,” he said. “How to do it is a key issue for me.”

Padilla was impressed with ACSS’ visit. “Thank you for your work,” he said. “I don’t often see participation at this kind of level.”

At the Ice Cream Social, the traditional close to Lobby Day, members recapped the event and dubbed it a success. The legislators “really listened,” they said. “They are more open to having discussions on the issues,” said board member Todd D’Braunstein.

Treasurer Elena Yuasa found the legislators “understand that the supervisors are an asset to the state, and they are willing to work with us … to come up with ideas to improve California.”