When YISD Voted to Increase Health Insurance Cost for Employees, who was there to speak out against it and for your interests?
The Ysleta Teacher Association
From the El Paso Times
“Noel Candelaria, the president of the Ysleta Teachers Association, was one of two teachers who spoke against the plan.
Board President Marty Reyes allowed Candelaria to speak only after he stood up and said that he had requested time in an e-mail last week. She first gave him two minutes until he protested that everyone else was allowed three minutes.
“I think our voices were heard, but they weren’t taken into consideration,” Candelaria said. “They had their minds made up.”
Candelaria maintained that the district should have contributed more. He said increases should have been phased in over two years to allow hourly employees who make less than $20,000 a year more time to adjust.
Bob Ward, the school board’s vice president, said that hourly employees in that category could seek state help through initiatives like the Children’s Health Insurance Program.”
Say What?
Why is YISD trying to shift their responsibility to state of Texas? The board believes we should tell our employees to sign up for CHIP because YISD refuses to take care of our own.
Outrageous!
This has to stop.
It is time for every employee to belong to a single organization and for that organization to exclusively speak for all the employees in YISD.
It’s time to come together. Join us and together we will change YISD.
YTA/TSTA/NEA—One Vision, One Voice