HPO’s are seriously overworked.    It isn’t right that DMH and DDS use overtime as a permanent staffing solution or that the only way HPO’s can provide for their families is to work the overtime because their pay is so low. 

 

To most hospital administrators, HPO’s are unavoidable in their “treatment” of clients.  Regardless of their medical training they have no concept of what it’s like to be an HPO and what’s worse is they don’t care.  All they see is an expense that they don’t want to pay.  By working HPO’s into the ground you get enough money to survive, but no time to live.  The hospitals also don’t have to pay increased retirement and healthcare costs for new employees, another savings. 

 

Peace Officers of California (P.O.C.) will seek contract and legislative changes to trigger mandatory pay increases in order to recruit and retain HPO’s if current overtime levels are sustained.  Hospital administrators are trying to save money on their operating budgets by imperiling the safety of employees, the public, and clients themselves. 

 

HPO’s need straight-line law enforcement with a cop at the top of the ticket making law enforcement policy decisions.  To that end, P.O.C. is determined to help the Governor follow through with some recommendations from his CPR report.  We need to establish a law enforcement liaison at the California Office of Public Safety (COPS). 

 

P.O.C. knows that politics is a tough game, which is why we have hired the State’s premier political strategists California Strategies and bargaining expert Marty Morgenstern to represent you.  We have already been more successful in one year than CSLEA has been in 15-years.  We will contrast our position versus any administration or politician in blunt terms and handle your business.

 

Whom do you think the Governor or the Legislature is more likely to give a pay increase in tough times – P.O.C. or CAUSE / CSLEA? You can be part of the change to help State Peace Officers gain pay-parity: