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UDW Holds Training for ADDUS Shop Stewards

ADDUS trainees and program facilitators.

Prasi Gupta, Education Coordinator from AFSCME came to facilitate this two-day training with co-facilitators from UDW; Johanna Hester, Willas Demorst and Mike Loza.

Riverside UDW office hosted a two-day training attended by 14 ADDUS trainees, vying for the position of "shop stewards" for the three UDW Counties that have ADDUS contracts; Butte, Riverside, and Santa Barbara.

A Union Shop Steward is

a rank and file leader who represents workers in the workplace and makes sure that the contract is upheld by management

Laura Reyes and other trainees.

UDW President Laura Reyes welcomed and graduated the trainees.

as well as participating in the training.


Russell Jones, Rosalina Flores, Laura Reyes, other trainees and UDW Staff.

Russell Jones, Butte ADDUS Chapter Chair

and Rosalina Flores, Riverside ADDUS

Chapter Chair
along with UDW President Laura Reyes, other trainees and staff.

Ricardo Cisneros, UDW regional organizer with Elva Munoz, Chapter Chair for ADDUS Santa Barbara at training.

Ricardo Cisneros, UDW regional organizer with Elva

Munoz, Chapter Chair for ADDUS Santa Barbara and others going over materials at the training.

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Community activist. Advocate for the disabled, elderly, and their care providers -- specifically through California's In-Home Supportive Services Program. Associated college degree and employment experience: communications, computer applications, website design & administration.




Date: July 11th, 2008
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