Throughout the years, San Diego Municipal Employees Association (MEA) has been the leader on many projects and has enjoyed terrific successes which were directly beneficial to its members. To refresh your memory, the following highlights are just a few of MEA’s accomplishments that have improved your benefits and job security.

Early Accomplisments

In 1926, MEA was founded to represent City of San Diego employees as well as the port employees.

During the ensuing years MEA:

• Worked with the City to establish the City Employee Retirement System
• Worked with charter issues to assist in establishing the Civil Service Commission
• Founded the Municipal Employees Credit Union (now called Metropolitan Credit Union)
• Participated in the enactment of the Myers-Milias-Brown Act, not only giving City employees the right to officially meet and confer but also the bargaining unit elections that followed
• MEA’s four current bargaining units were established giving MEA exclusive representation rights for those units

More Current Highlights

• The achievement of Parity with Fire and Police on annual cost of living increases.
• A 90.5 percent salary increase (1982 through 2004) Plus there was an additional six percent increase by July 2005.
• Over 360 Special Salary Adjustments (1982 through 2004).
• An increase in the Flexible Benefits from $1,000 in 1984 to $5,575 in 2004.
• The first major improvements of retirement benefits in 25 years, bringing City employees general members to 2.5 percent at 55 with ½ percent incremental increases beginning at age 60 and reaching maximum of 2.8 percent at age 65—the highest formula in California.

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