May 23, 2023
Bulletin 25 – 23

UFLAC General Membership Meeting
May 31, 2023 at 0800 hours
UFLAC Offices
being held at 1571 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA  90026

 

0730                Stewards Meeting

0800               General Membership Meeting Immediately Following Special Meeting

Call to Order
Pledge of Allegiance
Moment of Silence for our past fallen UFLAC Firefighters
Invocation
Roll Call of Officers
Adoption of the Minutes
Committee Reports

1. 2023-2024 UFLAC Budget
2. LA City Budget
3. Assign Hire LOA
4. Update on the UFLAC Lawsuit Regarding Pay
5. Unfinished Business
6. New Business

Adjournment

Executive Board – United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, Local #112

March 20, 2023
Bulletin 9 – 23

Special and General Membership Meeting
March 29th at 0800 hours
United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local 112
being held at 1571 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

 

0730             Stewards Meeting

Call to Order
Pledge of Allegiance
Moment of Silence for our past fallen UFLAC Firefighters
Invocation
Roll Call of Officers
Adoption of the Minutes
Committee Reports

0800            Special Meeting

Allocate UP TO $40,000 from the UFLAC Issues Committee for the 2022 Year in Review Photo Book. UFLAC has been producing the Year in Review Photo Book for nine years (this will be the 10th edition!) and it is distributed to elected officials, key city staff, civic and labor leaders throughout the country, and each LAFD work location in our continuing effort to educate our decision-makers and the general public about the critical work of our Firefighters. This book has proven to be extremely helpful in supporting our advocacy efforts for a fully funded Fire Department in the City of Los Angeles and has been instrumental in helping to make the LAFD a top priority.

Immediately following the Regular General Membership Meeting

Report on 2023 IAFF legislation
Update on Assign Hire
Unfinished Business
New Business
Adjournment

Executive Board – United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, Local #112

February 16, 2023
Bulletin 7 – 23

MEMBER UPDATE

This is an update to bulletin 5-23 regarding the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and weekly testing requirement.

On February 14, 2023 the Los Angeles City Council approved a motion that ended the weekly surveillance COVID testing. This means that the weekly testing requirement that applied to many of our members is no longer in existence.

In addition, all exemption requests submitted by UFLAC members prior to January 31, 2023 will be approved within the next 30 days.

All impacted members should have already received notification about these changes. If you did not, please contact a UFLAC Executive Board Member.

With this action from the city, the hardest aspects of the vaccine mandate and the impact it had on our members should be coming to a close. We know how difficult these decisions were and how much division they caused in our workplaces. Thank you to all members who followed UFLAC’s advice throughout the process and continued to work while submitting exemption requests.

Please reach out if you have any questions.

In Solidarity,

UFLAC Executive Board

February 3, 2023
Bulletin 5 – 23

MEMBER UPDATE

UFLAC has been made aware that the City Personnel Department has sent notification to city managers stating that:

“Effective immediately all existing (COVID vaccine mandate) exemption requests pending as of January 31, 2023, both medical and religious, filed by current employees will be administratively allowed.”

It is our understanding that all impacted UFLAC members who currently have exemption requests pending with the City will receive notification from LAFD Administration informing them that their exemption request has been approved and they will NOT have to take the vaccine in order to continue their employment with the City of Los Angeles.

This notice from the Personnel Department further stated that:

“Exemption requests submitted after January 31, 2023, will continue to be reviewed and evaluated on an individual basis and processed according to the Vaccine Exemption Procedures.”

We are proud of the fact that more than 99% of our members made the decision to be in compliance – by either taking the vaccine or submitting an exemption request and continuing to work. In addition, four of our members who had previously been out of compliance and LW recently followed our guidance and submitted their exemption requests prior to January 31, 2023. Per this policy these members’ exemption requests will also be approved and they will be able to return to work immediately. At this point, only one of our members has been terminated because of this policy, while other big city fire departments have lost dozens and dozens of members to termination due to their mandates.

UFLAC is continuing to push for the removal of the vaccine mandate, but in the meantime this should serve as a tremendous relief for all of our members who have listened to our strong and repeated advice to submit exemption requests in order to stay in compliance and continue working.

This issue has divided our members and our department for far too long. With this news, we can continue to move forward in a positive direction.

We will update all members with additional information as it becomes available.

In Solidarity,

UFLAC Executive Board

February 1, 2023
Bulletin 3 – 23

CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE ENDORSEMENT INTERVIEWS

February 7, 2023 at 0800 hours

United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local 112
1571 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Last year, Nury Martinez resigned from her position as the Councilmember from City Council District 6 which includes the communities of Van Nuys, Sun Valley, Panorama City, Arleta, and more. Because of this resignation, there is now a Special Election for Council District 6 voters that will be held in April of this year.

UFLAC will be interviewing all candidates for this Special Election who have taken the time to fill out our candidate questionnaire to earn our endorsement. All members are invited to attend these interviews, hear from each of the candidates, and vote for a potential endorsement.

Here is the schedule:

0800 Candidate Interviews Begin

1200 UFLAC Member Discussion & Possible Endorsement Vote

1300 Adjournment

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This is an extremely important election that is going to determine the future actions of the LA City Council on important issues of concern to our members and the City of Los Angeles. We encourage all members to attend and participate in our UFLAC endorsement process.

Executive Board – United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, Local 112