UTR MEMBERS SPEAK OUT
My husband is a small business owner, so we depend on my job for our family's health coverage. We pay $1,900 EVERY MONTH for someone else to take care of our children so I can work. With the added $489 taken out from my paycheck for healthcare, my paycheck is gone by the 5th of the month. I went to Kaiser to apply for healthcare for my family so that I could take a leave of absence. Because our 20-month-old is not walking or talking yet, she was TURNED DOWN by Kaiser so I had no choice but to continue to work for WCCUSD. I did not come to this district because I did not have any choices. I came here, like many of you, because I wanted to work where my hard work and extreme dedication would make a difference in an area that many have given up on. This year, with the way we have been treated, I have not felt inspired. Our jobs are getting harder and harder. Not because of the children and families we work with, but because of the lack of support and offensive disrespect we are getting from the administration and our own union. Our family went to every rally, protest, and meeting we could to support our union AND LOOK WHAT THEY DID!!! I will NOT continue to work here unless there are DRASTIC changes. Tammy Bankhead Chavez Elementary |
A frustrated member reported that during the Helms School Site Council meeting a controversial vote was taken to use QEIA Option 2 Goal funds to hire six teachers to teach classes with 12 students in order to raise test scores. This member has a class size of 35 students, and felt it was a waste of money. The member expressed disgust and decided to sign the recall petition. Member’s name withheld by request |
We ought to cry with those who cry and laugh with those who laugh. We are to bear one another’s burdens. The school district used to protect me and my children through health benefits. A member wrote “the school board punishes its teachers with families” as he circulated around during board meetings. It felt like a punishment when our benefits were unjustly taken from us. Do you see the unfairness? Don’t you think this is an equality issue? Some teachers have stood up for us and said during membership meetings that a universal cut may help build unity in the district. Hear our cry. Protect families by continually providing health benefits to the teachers with dependents. Lydia Chou Nystrom Elementary |
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