State of California

  M E M O R A N D U M

  REFERENCE CODE:
  2004-042

  DATE:
  August 24, 2004

  TO:
  Employee Relations Officers
  Personnel Officers
  Personnel Transactions Supervisors

  FROM:
  Department of Personnel Administration
  Labor Relations Division

  SUBJECT:
  Use of Printing Trades Specialist Classes

  CONTACT:
  Daniel Tokunaga, Staff Personnel Program Analyst
  (916) 322-3766
  FAX: (916) 327-1886
  E-mail: DanielTokunaga@dpa.ca.gov


  This is a reminder that State departments should not make 
  new appointments to the following rank-and-file Printing 
  Trades Specialist classes:
  
     Printing Trades Specialist I (General)
     Printing Trades Specialist I (Finishing)
     Printing Trades Specialist I (Photocopy)
     Printing Trades Specialist II (General)
     Printing Trades Specialist III (General)
     Printing Trades Specialist III (Process Camera)
     Printing Trades Specialist IV
  
  In 2000, the Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) 
  developed and revised several series of printing trades 
  classes that better addressed the States' printing and 
  publication needs.  The series included Digital Print 
  Operator, Bookbinder, Sheetfed Offset Press Operator, and 
  Webfed Offset Press Operator.  These classes were more 
  specialized and were intended to be used in lieu of the 
  more general Printing Trades Specialist classes.  For this 
  reason, no new appointments should be made to the obsolete 
  Printing Trades Specialist classes listed above.  
  
  Pursuant to Side Letter 12.14 of the Unit 14 collective 
  bargaining agreement, DPA is currently developing a State 
  Personnel Board calendar item which will formally preclude 
  new appointments to the above cited Printing Trades 
  Specialist classes.  
  
  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact 
  Daniel Tokunaga at the phone number or e-mail address shown 
  above.
  
  
  
  
  Julie Chapman
  Assistant Chief of Labor Relations