In California and elsewhere the trend toward outsourcing, or contracting-out, has been growing at an alarming rate.
For public schools, there is an outside company available for virtually every classified service. While it makes good public rhetoric to proclaim cost-savings for cash strapped schools, outsourcing brings with it a host of problems—and in many cases, it produces little or no cost-savings at all.
Classified employees have become a target
Everyday, California’s school employees – instructional assistants, school security guards, school bus drivers and others – work hard to educate and serve our children.
In tight budget times many of these dedicated employees have become a target for outsourcing. Sometimes called “privatization,” school districts are exploring ways to hand over important public service jobs to huge, private corporations who pay their employees lower wages and provide few, if any, health benefits.
We should not sacrifice the jobs of hard working public employees to help the profits of big corporations, eliminating the laws that require them to justify cost savings and guarantee quality, so they can engage in unregulated contracts and increase their profits at the taxpayers’ expense.
SB 1419 provides contracting safeguards
In 2002, California passed SB 1419, a law that established reasonable safeguards for school districts to follow prior to contracting-out classified services. The law doesn’t prohibit outsourcing, it simply establishes common-sense requirements—such as competitive bidding, fingerprinting and background checks, and proof of cost savings—to protect our students and taxpayers.
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we met new friends from other departments and had a good ol time cooking and talking and getting to know each other outside of work. Despite of the heat we also got the chance to play a little game of soccer… and the teams were divided by girls against guys…. better luck next year boys, because the girls won!!!! ha ha… well, I sure hope to see all my new friends around the district and hope to see you all back next year! Til then…. Marilyn.
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At last night’s meeting the membership voted and selected 7 delegates to go to the Conference in Las Vegas this Year.
During the last month I was invited and attended the CPR. What you may ask is CPR? It is not as many of you may be thinking , Cardio- Pulmonary Resuscitation Classes. Well at least not this time. In this case it stands for Chapter President’s Retreat. Although it is in a way the restarting of a heart… The heart of our Chapter. It was in effect an operation designed to bring US back to life… It sounds far more relaxing than it actually was. CPR is a an intense four day immersion training where new chapter president’s are taught the policies , and procedures of CSEA. President’s and some Vice president’s are given tools to help grow and protect their Chapter’s, and their members. We were taught how to be more effective leaders. We were taught how to bring our Chapter’s back from the rocks…
California. To make friend’s and allies for our member’s and to allow us to network and find answer’s from our peer’s. It was a way to energize and inspire us to do great things for those who asked us to take this office. It would be impossible to describe this intense, hands on experience for some one who had not been there. I am happy to say that the training though exhausting, was all of those things and more for me. It gave me Ideas, and inspiration…
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