It’s time to divest from private prisons: The US incarcerates more prisoners than any other nation in the world - and private prisons profit. Our new report details how AFT members can encourage their pension funds to divest from private prison corporations.
The Department of Administration released its statutorily-required report on contract services in December 2018. You can read the report here. Or, to see a one-page summary, you can look at the chart we created using DOA's data here.
There's another interesting report that DOA released recently. It's called the State of Wisconsin Classified Workforce & Affirmative Action Report for Fiscal Years 2015 and 2016 which can be found here. It includes a chart showing separations from state service during the years fiscal year 2004 to fiscal year 2016. You can see a scan of that chart here.
A couple of interesting things start to happen around 2011. The money spent on contract employees increases greatly while the number of state employees separting from state service also increases a lot.
Many government employees already live paycheck to paycheck, without their government salary, it’s getting hard to feed their families.
This shutdown has plunged thousands of Americans, including many AFT members, into economic uncertainty and put critical services at risk. It’s time to end this pain being inflicted on American families.
Pre-Inauguration Discussion for State Employees. What does the future hold with a new administration?
The Wisconsin Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) provides education, counseling and enrollment assistance to Medicare beneficiaries.
Medicare Presentation
A class-action suit filed in federal court sets out serious allegations that student loan servicer Navient has misled borrowers in public service professions from accessing a loan forgiveness program to boost its own profits. The landmark complaint, which seeks millions in damages and class-wide injunctive relief, details a spate of systematic misrepresentations, untruths and misdirection pedaled by Navient to stop borrowers from enrolling in Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a 10-year payoff plan administered by rival servicer FedLoan.
