Local 790: What We’Re Fighting For

The following text is taken from the most recent SEIU Local 790 flyer titled, "WHAT WE’RE FIGHTING FOR"

Dependent Health Care beginning March 1, 2006

2% Wage Increase on June 30, 2006

1.25% Wage Increase on December 1, 2006

1.25% Wage Increase on April 1, 2007

Cost of package to District over 2 years = $2.5 million

We also seek to stop the injustice of longtime employees of the District being cheated out of our health care and other benefits by means of "permanent exempt" and "as needed" classifications.

Meanwhile, the District is trying to force us to "choose" between its own two proposals which: A) Give us a total of 2% in wage increases over 2 years, plus dependent care for one year only (after, which point we lost it again), or B) Give us a total of 4% in wage increases over two years, but without even a temporary dependent health care benefit. The cost of the District’s package over 2 years = $1.3 million.

The cost difference between our proposal & theirs is $1.2 million.

WHY THEY CAN AFFORD US

The $1.8 million in lottery funds SFUSD just received by itself would cover the difference between our proposal and theirs. Add to this the $8.2 million in available Proposition H funds, and you have $10 million. That’s over 8 times the difference between our two proposals, just from those two revenue streams!

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