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MERC has counted the ballots and POAM won a resounding victory, securing 75% of the ballots cast. However, SEIU has not yet withdrawn it’s bogus unfair labor practice charge against the county. Official certification will not take place until that issue goes away. SEIU must present or withdraw it’s case on December 19. I will keep you posted
–Ed Jacques
Please post any suggested ideas or topics that you might have for the next POAM Semiar in June, 2009. We have already heard that a detailed class on political involvement, endorsements, PAC Spending, etc. would be beneficial. Any suggestions can be posted right here on the blog, feel free to leave a comment with your ideas.
Thanks,
Ed Jacques
After 24 years in the field on two different agencies, the most important thing I learned was to listen to old cops. “Old” is relative. It might mean 28 years old, having been on three more years than I was at the time, but these officers still knew more “stuff” than I did.
The big secret is to listen to these veteran cops, believe most of it, and put it into action in your own life. What I learned from older cops covered the gamut from on-duty techniques to off-duty survival (both in family life and real life), and it saved my life on several occasions I know of and probably many more times I never even realized.
What follows is a compendium of “stuff” I learned from my own experiences and from cops who were smarter than me. We all have this list buried somewhere inside, but we rarely make it a formal one, something we can point to, hand a trainee, or simply look at once in a while and say, “Yup, that’s all true.”
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