IBEW raises concerns over double dipping at L.A. DWP [Video]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A union leader Monday continued to raise concerns over a Los Angeles city policy that allows some employees to “double dip” by collecting a pension and then starting a new position at the Department of Water and Power with a higher-than-average salary.

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Guz Corona, business manager and head of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, which represents nearly all DWP workers, sent a cease-and-desist letter to the city last week. He warned the city’s recent actions threaten the solvency of the Water and Power Employees Retirement System, and violates the City Charter.

According to Corona, there are four to six city employees that retired from a Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System position, then took a new salaried job with DWP, which has a separate pension system.

In 1937, the City …