As a member of LiUNA! Local 777 you also benefit directly from more than a century of combined experience by dedicated and passionate Union Leadership. What follows is a list of our proudest efforts during the last few years. We successfully countered numerous voter initiatives designed to eliminate defined benefit pensions for public employees.We actively support legislation to make privatization efforts more difficult.We are unwavering in our budget advocacy in Phoenix and Sacramento – fighting on behalf of our union members working in the Courts, Social Services, Transportation, Education, and every other area in which our union members are employed.We successfully stopped legislation that would have privatized all of our union members’ jobs in the City of Phoenix.Working with our union siblings throughout California, we successfully defeated Proposition 32 which would have silenced the political voice of public employees.We successfully lead a campaign to defeat Arizona legislation which would have privatized more than 80% of jobs in cities throughout Arizona.We successfully lobbied to save the jobs of Riverside County Transportation employees from being privatized.We organized lobby days, during which our members met with individual legislators and testified before committees regarding many issues of concern to the members of LiUNA! Local 777 in Arizona and California.We successfully lobbied to have the language in PEPRA (Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act) changed to allow our members in Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Lake Elsinore, and Sierra Madre to continue participating in the LIUNA Industrial Pension Plan.We have created three public employee joint labor-management apprenticeships in the City of Phoenix - including the first Solid Waste Equipment Operation (garbage driver) Apprenticeship in the nation.