CETA REGULATIONS/LEGISLATION

WHEREAS, the membership of the AFT is keenly aware of the need to find employment for the unemployed and underemployed in our society; and

WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act attempts to achieve this goal; and

WHEREAS, many AFT locals have experienced employers using CETA personnel to do bargaining unit work, under various job titles; and

WHEREAS, CETA has the potential to erode bargaining units and to undermine unions in all fields:

RESOLVED, that the AFT use every effort to accomplish changes in CETA regulations or legislation that would: (1) specify the bargaining unit which represents the CETA person on the job site, and (2) compel CETA funds for retraining as dependent upon the preferred hiring list of the agency;, and

RESOLVED, that the AFT use every effort to accomplish changes in CETA regulations or legislation that would specify the bargaining unit to which a CETA-funded position belongs; that priority for appointment to CETA-funded positions be given to those on an agency's preferred list, if there is one; and that will prevent CETA funding of positions whose functions were previously performed by members of a bargaining unit unless such position is brought into an existing bargaining unit; and

RESOLVED, that the AFT seek changes in CETA legislation to provide CETA personnel with the salary and benefits negotiated by the local bargaining agent as well as membership within the local bargaining unit, and

RESOLVED, that the AFT encourage locals to bargain recognition clauses which include temporary personnel, and

RESOLVED, that where CETA provides for job training programs such programs be administered only by public educational agencies with certified teacher personnel and licensed guidance counselors.