Re: prison guard benefits

[howard banford <h_banford@yahoo.com>]

Prison guards have negotiated great benefits. How can we work to obtain such health and retirement benefits? Don't we deserve them? In my school district we get health benefits for only five years after retirement and the pension is fair and getting worse by the year? What do people think?
   
                                                Howard Banford

Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
  
>From: Jonah Zern 
>
>March 8, 2006 -- The California Labor Federation's
>COPE convention in Oakland today declined to endorse Superintendent of
>Public Instruction Jack O'Connell for re-election.
>
>The primary reason for the withholding of support was
>O'Connell's continued support of Randall Ward, the state-imposed trustee of
>the Oakland Unified School District, and his anti-union policies. Not only
>did O'Connell issue a letter supporting Ward against the union and the
>findings of the State Mediation Service's fact-finding memo, but in response
>to a question from a Teamster official about "replacement workers" (scabs),
>O'Connell responded, "You mean substitutes. They're just substitutes."
>
>The lack of labor support for O'Connell increases the
>chances of a strong showing for Sarah Knopp, a Los Angeles teacher who is
>running against O'Connell with the support of the Green Party, the
>Peace and Freedom Party and the International Socialist Organization.
>
>[For more information about Knopp's campaign, see
>).
>

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