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11-02-2019, 02:17 PM #1UnregisteredGuest
PLEA wins huge rights case.
BREAKING NEWS - ‘WITNESS’ ENTITLED TO WEINGARTEN REPRESENTATIVE
October 29, 2019
This article appears in the November 2019 issue of our monthly newsletter Public Safety Labor News.
This journal is published nation-wide to police officers, labor attorneys, and such…. PLEA has fought for Weingarten representation for witness police officers; police officers now, are entitled to this protection… A right for police officers that PLEA researched, and developed, and Florida’s Public Employment Relations Commission, PERC, agreed with us. PLEA fought this and won! Yet, we must wonder why, wouldn’t the PBA argue this right for all police officers, whether they are a subject or a witness?
Please read the article, Dan
https://lris.com/2019/10/28/witness-...eid=b340249625
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11-02-2019, 02:23 PM #2UnregisteredGuest
Thank you PLEA
Thank you for watching our backs. Your attorneys are truly second to none. Real bulldogs.
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11-02-2019, 02:50 PM #3UnregisteredGuest
Keep up the good fight Dan
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11-02-2019, 03:03 PM #4UnregisteredGuest
Once again, reading into it. In this particular case, the Doral command staff told the employee that they did not know who the subject employee was. Our PCB has always and will always bring everyone in as a subject, first and foremost. Second, witness officers do not have the right to representation.
As the article clear states, the officer was clearly the subject. “We credit Bardelas’ testimony that prior to her interview she REASONABLY believed that she was still the SUBJECT of the investigation... “ so, it was a ploy by the agency to bring her in as a witness rather than a subject. Hence, Weingarten applies because she was a SUBJECT and not a WITNESS and the Department incorrect characterized her.
Weingarten rights guarantee an employee the right to Union representation during an investigatory interview. An investigatory interview is one in which supervisors questions an employee to obtain information which could be used as a basis for discipline or asks an employee to defend his/her conduct.
So yes as it’s known to EVERYONE. Subject officers to have the right to representation.
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11-02-2019, 03:23 PM #5UnregisteredGuest
I'm particularly impressed that the article was written by a neutral party. As such very impressive PLEA! Congratulations!!
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11-02-2019, 03:29 PM #6UnregisteredGuest
It’s clear that Doral PD knee she was the subject so In this particular case of course she was entitled to a rep. Witness officers to don’t have that choice. This was case specific that it was obvious that the department was trying to obtain a statement without a rep. Again, she was the subject.
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11-02-2019, 03:42 PM #7UnregisteredGuest
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11-02-2019, 03:46 PM #8UnregisteredGuest
Ok nice but what about the Eureka Gracia case? She got 20 days off and a MOU on a case that was a good shooting?????
Had she been a PBA member this injustice would not have happened.
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11-02-2019, 03:51 PM #9UnregisteredGuest
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11-02-2019, 04:16 PM #10
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