Civil Service Teach-In

Wisconsin State Capitol, North Hearing Room

Please plan to attend and invite friends and allies to join us. This is the first day of the legislative session, and the Senate is expected to take up SB 285, the civil service "overhaul" bill that same day. The Teach-In is sponsored by the Wisconsin Coalition to Save Civil Service.

Featured Speakers:

Ruth Conniff, the Progressive Magazine

Paul Spink, AFSCME Council 32

Mike McCabe, Blue Jean Nation

Description:

Wisconsin Civil Service, a 110 year old system for clean government, is on the chopping block today. The GOP-sponsored Senate Bill 285 would eliminate impartial testing of many state job candidates, and would centralize hiring in the highly politicized Department of Administration, which is tightly controlled by the governor. The bill would also eliminate major components of merit hiring, just cause, and seniority job security protections - all important in protecting our state agencies from succumbing to cronyism and partisan politics.

GOP leaders are selling their plan on lies that barely obscure their real aim of making it easier to hire political cronies and fire whistleblowers. This continues the unrelenting attack on public employees and clean government waged by Scott Walker, who has stripped away workplace rights and dramatically slashed take home pay for public employees across the board.

Unions and clean government advocates are fighting to stop the demolition of a system that has protected state services from political shenanigans for more than a century. All are encouraged to attend a Teach-In to learn about the value of Civil Service and why our legislators should oppose Senate Bill 285.

Sponsored by the Wisconsin Coalition to Save Civil Service. Contact us at WICoalitiontoSaveCivilService@gmail.com

The Wisconsin Coalition to Save Civil Service includes the South Central Federation of Labor, AFSCME Council 32, American Federation of Teachers-

Wisconsin (AFT-W), Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Blue Jean Nation, AFT-W State Employee Council, Wisconsin Professional Employee Association,

POWRS, NAACP-Dane County, Progressive Dane, AFSCME Local 171 & 68.