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Save Education Funding, TAKE ACTION NOW |
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With the fiscal year ending June 30, the Senate and Assembly are meeting daily to adopt a single compromise budget to send to the Governor. While there are several budget proposals being considered the Assembly's budget plan, the California Jobs Budget, fully funds education and protects classified employees jobs. As we reported in a previous PAC Flash, Assembly Speaker John A. Perez has put forward a budget known as the California Jobs Budget. It's an innovative plan that will close the budget deficit and reject the Governor’s draconian cuts to education and safety net programs and create and protect 465,000 jobs to help stimulate our economy. The Assembly budget plan rejects the Governor’s false choice of pitting social services against education against jobs. The California Jobs Budget rejects the Governor’s call to break the July 2009 education budget agreement memorialized in AB 4X 3 and rejects the manipulation or suspension of Proposition 98, and rejects the Governor’s proposed $4.1 billion cut in education. The Assembly budget plan protects working families from devastating cuts in services like home care and child care, and saves jobs for school employees, police, firefighters and others who provide vital services at the state and local levels. |
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Yesterday, the state Senate held an informational hearing on the H1N1 virus and CSEA participated in that hearing. CSEA urged the committee to examine whether schools are prepared to respond to the H1N1 pandemic, including whether each school site has protective equipment and has provided training to staff on how to respond. CSEA also urged workplace flexibility be given to staff when taking time off due to the flu. |
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Take Action Now: Governor Makes Devastating Cuts to the Healthy Families Program Yesterday the Governor slashed another $50 million from the Healthy Families Program. This is in addition to the $124 million in cuts the Governor has already made to this program in the latest budget revision. It has also cost California over $300 million in federal matching funds. Although, these cuts did not totally eliminate the program, as was initially proposed by the Governor, it has been dealt a devastating blow and hundreds of thousands of children are expected to lose their health insurance. |
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The job you save may be your own |
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As we head into another very difficult budget year where the Governor is already threatning to cut school funding in 2009, We all need to work together to prevent the Districts from balancing their budgets on the backs of Classified Employees. In the next few months we will all have to take action to protect our jobs. This means we must act in the true spirit of unionism and join our brothers and sisters as they take action in their chapters. |
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