Four private contractors now handle the maintenance business of the Charleston County School District, thanks to a policy that outsourced these workers purportedly as a cost-saving measure. Who negotiated their contracts? Why, financial officer Michael Bobby without the input of either the employees or the school board.
Fine. Now Bobby should be on the hot seat for the continuing problems caused by his actions. Despite silence on the part of the P&C, this transition has been anything but painless. Some paychecks were delayed up to five weeks. Hours of work during the final weeks at CCSD were not counted. Would anyone believe that these problems would not be a severe hardship on workers who are making a hardscrabble living in the first place? We're talking home evictions and car repossessions.
Now CCSD is taking action against those workers who have dared to speak out. Despite assurances from Board Chair Chris Fraser and member Coats that no retaliation would take place while these problems were being resolved, Service Solutions fired one of these workers last Friday. The others, whom Michael Bobby and Superintendent McGinley have attempted to isolate and prevent school board members from supporting, wonder who's next.
Several workers have filed a formal complaint with the SC Department of Labor concerning their last paychecks. Thanks to the superintendent's policies, the school board can no longer hear complaints from classified employees. They are at the mercy of McGinley.
I don't know about you, but that's not a place I'd care to be. It's time for our state representatives Ford and Gilliard to step in.
Monday, October 03, 2011
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Why dont you ask the guy who was fired (JM) how the prostitute was whom he was arrested for soliciting.. Don't know about you, but I don't want that guy roaming my kid's school, going in and out of the bathrooms. He more than earned his terminations. That was just the last in the line of criminal acts.
Don't know whom you're talking about--this was a "she."
Anonymous 8:43 pm is putting out clutter for the administration. That's not the employee who got fired after McGinley turned on the heat. This is about retaliation. If you want to talk about titillation then let's talk about the private lives of a large percentage of those who run the schools. These people have the power because they control the money. You can add criminal levels of nepotism to this discussion. Revealing how many parties to CCSD contracts share the same bedroom might be a good place to start.
How come CCSD moves these people out to private companies and then reassigns their bosses to new higher paid positions within CCSD?
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