The Metro Nashville School District in Nashville, Tenn needs to save $11 million in its budget, and one solution for that is outsourcing the districts hundreds of custodian and grounds keeper positions. As president of SEIU Local 205, Doug Collier represents the workers as president. The state’s healthcare and the public service workers union.
In the news, Doug Collier stated that No matter what good Dr. Register has done to this point, this will completely tear the community apart. They just cannot come in one year and say that they are going to destroy there whole family and there whole livelihood. But the Inion said to that issue that the schools’ director talks a good talk when it comes to outsourcing their jobs, even in saying that he thinks that he will be able to increase the number of positions in the district.
The private companies are in the business to make money so they said where do they make that money from? It is taken off the backs of the workers that have the least paying jobs and the works some of the hardest jobs in the city.
Collier stated that the benefits won’t be as good, but they will expect salaries to be comparable and that is the best case scenario. People will see them either without the health insurance, without retirement benefits and it is devastating to the community and one thing that they do not need is that the Nashville is more people under employed or unemployed according to Collier.
The custodian clean the other Metro Government buildings will be already work for a private company and it will not employed by the city. Reducing the central office staff by 24 people and cutting an hour of pay each day from the bus drivers in the district is the potential cuts for Metro Schools.
The employees protested in the parking lot because when it is Thursday evening, it was a standing room only at the public forum at the Metro School Board. Those employees who protested in the parking lot voiced their opinions inside during the meeting. Their is a support from some of the Metro Council members.
The school board hopes to vote on a financial budget recommendation to submit to the mayor.
One of the best trend now in the world is the outsourcing, businesses outsourced everywhere. This is because that this will be their means of reducing expenses, in order for them to save more money. Companies have been outsourcing jobs and entire production facilities to the other countries for so many years. Our company is one of the outsourcing company wherein it helps our company in our development.
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http://www.wkrn.com/story/12094515/metro-schools-cuts-could-mean-custodian-jobs-outsourced?redirected=true
http://www.insurancejobs.com/insurance-discussion-forum/showthread.php?10999-Metro-schools-cuts-could-mean-custodian-jobs-outsourced-%28WKRN-Nashville%29
http://story.knoxvilletimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/209dc06dd4a5e0e7/id/32853963/
