How Funds Are Used

 To Endorse:

      Candidates who support public employee issues, based on recommendations from the C.S.E.A.
      membership

To Communicate:

     With the candidates our position issues that affect you.

To Lobby:

     Legislators to secure necessary funding to protect your job in the State and Federal budget process 
     and to protect your right in the workplace.

To Educate:

     The C.S.E.A. membership on legislative initiatives that could affect them and to encourage them to
     call or write the appropriate elected official.

To Monitor:

     Proposed legislation to ensure that our members voices on matters affecting them is heard.

What P.E.O.P.L.E. has done for you...

Passed:

     The Family and Medical Leave Act:

            Allows up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave for the birth of a child or the serious illness of a 
            parent, spouse or child.

Defeated:

     Legislation that would have forced local governments to consider privatized public water systems.

Defeated:

     Legislation that would have privatized highways and public transit systems.

Prevented:

     T.A.N.F. reauthorization that would have led to privatization of thousands of Social Service jobs.

Passes:

     Permanent C.O.L.A. Legislation that gives retirees automatic pension increases.

What P.E.O.P.L.E. is doing for you now...

Fighting:

     To keep Medicare and Social Security funding at levels that would not hurt our senior citizens,  
     children and the disabled.

Fighting to oppose:

     Legislation that would allow States and local governments to privatize public sector jobs.

Oppose:

     Legislation that would raise the eligibility age, reduce benefits or privatize Social Security.

Fighting:

     For a real Patient's Bill of Rights that would reform H.M.O.'s.

Fighting:

     Against Federal and State attacks on education, health care and workers' rights.

An agenda for working families...