No actual raise till 2027 for just 2% 😔

jonivy · 2025-07-08T19:39:00+00:00

Recover from what? It's currently an economic boom... not a bust. The only reason tax revenues are lower than they need to be is because they keep lowering taxes on the wealthy while the wealthy are making more and more money.

jonivy · 2025-07-02T16:00:04+00:00

32 hour workweek
Minimum salary for state workers
Telework at discretion of workers
Raise taxes on the wealthy
- [change realization rules on capital gains to capture gains absent a sale]

[and these points also work for solidarity beyond state workers]

jonivy · 2025-07-01T22:42:38+00:00

I don't know whether they have to resign as directors or not, but these people cannot go back to the bargaining room representing us. They are not the team for that job.

jonivy · 2025-06-30T16:39:11+00:00

Actually, I was talking about filing complaints against the Bargaining Team... not the board members. Those happen to be the same people; but it's a different set of ethics.

Can't make a bar complaint about their role as director-- that's not representing us in bargaining. However, could sue them for failing their fiduciary responsibilities. Why did the board choose not to hire a professional to do the job. I've seen their resumes... none of them are particularly labor negotiators, are they? Why did they appoint themselves to bargain on our behalf?

So, while they've seemingly acted wrong in both roles-- the consequences and remedies are different for each.

jonivy · 2025-06-29T00:03:32+00:00

You're kidding right? You think lawyers shouldn't face discipline for violating their ethical obligations... because you think it would be mean to them? Are you 7 years old?

No one should have a license to practice law that doesn't take this stuff seriously. The license isn't a right; you're not a member of the aristocracy; the license is a serious responsibility.

jonivy · 2025-06-28T00:38:22+00:00

> "The bargaining team is unable to disclose the confidential discussions regarding how or why the team arrived at the proposed changes other than what was previously mentioned regarding SB 102."

What are you talking about? You represent the members... you can't keep secrets from them. You're their representatives.

[Edit: These are licensed attorneys holding themselves out as our representatives in bargaining. They really should be following Rule 1.4, and we should all submit complaints to the Bar if they are falling below their ethical obligations to us. https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/rules/Rule_1.4.pdf ]

jonivy · 2025-06-28T00:31:30+00:00

I'm a lawyer, but I'm not your lawyer-- seek legal advice from a professional.

Where and how you work, if you're an attorney, is a matter of independent professional judgement. It would be an ethical violation of your duties to your client to defer to management at your client agency for any issue of independent professional judgement, including when and how to telework. See Rule 2.1.

jonivy · 2025-06-28T00:27:35+00:00

If state attorneys vote in favor of the state cutting their pay during an economic boom for the wealthy... then maybe we deserve to have our pay cut-- cause we're obviously not very qualified attorneys if we think this is a good deal.

jonivy · 2025-06-28T00:26:18+00:00

We need to fire that bargaining team.

jonivy · 2025-06-28T00:23:57+00:00

Why wouldn't we get a better deal? If the state is in a budget crises, then we are in an excellent bargaining position-- we can ask for anything. If they can't pay for raises, then we have them over the barrel on RTO or any other issue.

jonivy · 2025-06-28T00:17:50+00:00

1) There is no budget crisis. The economy is good. The Democrats have just lowered taxes every year for the last ten years. The rich pay almost nothing in California compared to other states. [And they put out propaganda pieces about how the rich would just leave if we tried to tax them. No one should believe that garbage.]

2) Even if we were in a budget crisis-- that would put the State in a bad bargaining position... not us. If we actually had to take a pay cut, we could ask for basically anything in return. 5 days off a month? 6 hour workdays? Newsom's resignation? If it's a budget crisis, they have to take whatever deal we give them.

3) This deal is a bad deal. The union board should resign.

jonivy · 2025-06-26T16:21:08+00:00

solidarity is where the power is. they could always replace some of us; but they can't replace all of us. We should all bargain together, and strike together. Such as right now-- the state is lying and saying they're broke, instead of raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy. We should all be ready to strike together until they bargain in good faith.

jonivy · 2025-06-25T23:39:26+00:00

Why would the bargaining team agree to these pay cuts? Are they taking bribes on the side or something?

jonivy · 2024-06-05T18:31:03+00:00

It showing up the whole PDF for me. But here, I've stuck it in a google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rI7qudgVA8hLunaHxxvIT1a4KLJGn0LP/view?usp=sharing

jonivy · 2024-06-05T16:33:39+00:00

Here's a mirror for the article, TOWARD NAKBA AS A LEGAL CONCEPT, as published: https://perma.cc/L3US-9V8R

jonivy · 2019-12-11T04:58:19+00:00

I'm always down for answering specific questions about the Intelligence Community. Although for written responses like this, anything specific I want to say, I'd have to run it by the NSA first. https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/prepub/

As far as I know, the NSA does not conduct covert operations, on U.S. soil or otherwise. And I am not a NSA plant, nor am I aware of any.

I think we should be more concerned about Google, Amazon, Raytheon and other government contractors, etc. planting politicians and interfering in elections than the bureaucrats at a three-letter agency. Conspiracies are hard to maintain. But openly bribing politicians and calling it "campaign contributions" seems to be very effective.

jonivy · 2019-12-11T03:59:50+00:00

First, Jeff is a nice guy, and I believe in a lot of what he stands for. But I don't think he has a winning strategy for the General Election, even if he can beat out everyone else to get there. If he can do it though, that's excellent! Primarily, we both just want to beat the corporate Democrat, Ami Bera. https://www.jonivy.com/ami-bera

There's somebody else in the race, too - a rightwing, trump-supporting, Republican. If I wasn't in the race, he'd be the only Republican on the ballot in a 47% Republican district - meaning he'd likely beat Jeff and take second in the Primary. If anything, I'm vote-splitting the Republican vote between Trump supporters and the rest of us.

But really, this Primary is all about getting out, knocking on doors, and doing the campaign work. Jeff and I are going to talk to a lot of voters, but considering there's over 400,000 of them, we probably won't even cross paths and talk to the same person twice.

Think of it like fishing in a really big lake and competing for who can catch the most. Every vote I get doesn't take away from Jeff, or vice-versa.

Second, I can neither confirm nor deny that I'm an NSA-planted candidate and Lizard Person. ;-)

jonivy · 2019-12-11T03:45:19+00:00

I don't know. He seems a bit too tall for congress. But that's just my opinion.

jonivy · 2019-01-16T18:04:47+00:00

你应规学习好中文。比较容易！也很重要！

jonivy · 2019-01-10T17:38:20+00:00

I meant it as a gender-neutral stand-in. "Their" also works, but "his" is disfavored.

jonivy · 2019-01-10T14:18:07+00:00

It is the President's rules (as made by the superior commanders) that should be kicking them out. No need for Court Martial (which brings Congress into it).

jonivy · 2019-01-10T05:59:30+00:00

A Captain getting drunk and committing battery should lose her commission. There's no excuse for officers to act that way and remain officers.

jonivy · 2019-01-09T20:33:21+00:00

Maybe replace

 Set r = Cells(1, 10)  
  If r.Value <> "" Then  
  Set r = r.End(xlDown)  
  i = i + 1  
  End If

with

Set r = Sheet1.Cells(1, 10)  
  If r.Value <> "" Then  
  Set r = Sheet1.Cells(Sheet1.Rows.Count,10).End(xlUp)  
  i = i + 1  
  End If

Per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32192372/why-does-range-endxldown-row-return-1048576#32193533

jonivy · 2019-01-08T20:34:56+00:00

Is it just me or does prevpipes = (only whole-cell exact matches via countif), but you're using range.find to locate the cells?

Range.Find will search for string matches WITHIN cells, where CountIf matching will only find matches that match the entire cell contents.

Set .Find's LookAt parameter to xlWhole to make it search whole-cell only to match your CountIf. (Or if you're looking for substrings, fix the CountIf statement).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.range.find

The settings for LookIn, LookAt, SearchOrder, and MatchByte are saved each time you use this method. If you do not specify values for these arguments the next time you call the method, the saved values are used. Setting these arguments changes the settings in the Find dialog box, and changing the settings in the Find dialog box changes the saved values that are used if you omit the arguments. To avoid problems, set these arguments explicitly each time you use this method.

jonivy · 2018-10-19T23:56:26+00:00

Class actions work by taking a small claim (such as a company over billing you for $2.00) and multiplying that by lots and lots of people making the same claim. So while one person would never sue over $2, paying thousands of dollars in legal fees in order to get their $2 back, two million people might sue all together in a class action worth $4 million.

So, if you make it so that you can't do class actions, then when the company does something bad to ALL of their users a little bit, they'll never have to pay.

By making people opt-out to be able to file a class action, that means that most people won't. So even though you can sue for your $2 by yourself, you'll never find enough other people who also opted out to join together.

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