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CFT Endorses Cathy Hackett for CALPERS Board
The California Federation of Teachers executive board voted to endorse Cathy Hackett for the CalPERS Board. The CalPERS board manages retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million California public employees’ retirees, and their families. As of June 30, 2008, CalPERS provided pension benefits to over 1 million active and inactive members and pension benefits to over 450,000 retirees. CalPERS also manage health benefits for nearly 1.3 million members. In September 2009, CFT will have the opportunity to elect Cathy Hackett as one of the 13 members who serve on the CalPERS Board.
 The CFT believes that Cathy Hackett will be a strong voice for state and school employees. She will fight for the interests of school and state workers and protect our retirement to keep our pension safe. Hackett knows that healthcare is under attack and she will help control Healthcare costs as a member of the CalPERS board.
Hackett was speaking to employees at Los Angeles Valley College “Classified Staff Enrichment Day” and committed her support for CFT sponsored Assembly Bill 1477 – Death Benefit Equity for CalPERS School Classified-Members and Public Agency Employees.
Keep your eye on the mail; ballots will be mailed to your home beginning September 5. It is predicted to be low voter participation and Hackett needs the support from CFT members.
Make CalPERS Strong Again Elect Cathy Hackett |
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What is the Council of Classified Employees |
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The Council of Classified Employees (CCE) is an organization dedicated to supporting classified employee members of the CFT. Throughout California, the CCE represents thousands of classified employees working as bus drivers, secretaries and office workers, paraprofessionals and teaching assistants, custodians and maintenance workers, food service workers, and other non-certificated employees in early childhood centers, schools, and on college campuses.
The CCE is a division of the California Federation of Teachers (CFT). The CFT is an affiliate of the over one million-member American Federation of Teachers, which represents 200,000 classified employees nationwide. |
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An overview of the CCE and its positions on crucial issues for classified employees |
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What is the CCE?
The Council of Classified Employees (CCE) is one of the four governance councils of the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), which is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. It comprises the leadership of 23 local unions which represent classified school employees such as secretaries, bus drivers, maintenance and operation employees, food service workers, paraprofessionals, early childhood workers and police officers – all essential to providing education to California’s students. Established in 1983, the CCE now represents more than 6,500 employees statewide working in public schools, community colleges and county offices of education. |
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Berkeley classified employees rally for contract |
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More than 100 classified employees working in the Berkeley Unified School District and their boisterous supporters— teachers and firefighters— marched to district headquarters after school to demand a fair contract on September 10. The classified workers, members of the Berkeley Council of Classified Employees, Local 6192, have been more than a year without a contract and haven't yet gotten a salary offer for the 06-07 school year, let alone the new academic year. Jane Hundertmark photo
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Classified School Employee Week May 20-26 |
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Celebrate Classified School Employee Week
The people who make the schools work: the secretaries, school bus drivers, gardeners, building maintenance workers, janitors, paraprofessionals, and food service employees: everyone who isn't a teacher or administrator, without whom the teachers couldn't teach and the administrators couldn't do whatever it is administrators do.
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