What is PEOPLE?
 Public Employees Organized to Promote Legislative
Equality (P.E.O.P.L.E.) is CSEA's federal political action program. The
PEOPLE committee is responsible for raising money to promote the interests of
the membership in the federal elective and legislative process.
How funds are used
 The PEOPLE Program doesn't
just hand out money to politicians. Election Law limits the
dollar amount that can be contributed to any candidate. The funds are spent as
follows:
- TO ENDORSE candidates who support public employee
issues, based on recommendations from the CSEA membership.
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- TO COMMUNICATE with the candidates our position on 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 rights in the workplace.
- TO EDUCATE the CSEA membership on legislative initiatives that could affect members and to encourage members to call or write the appropriate elected official.
- TO MONITOR proposed legislation to ensure that our members' voices on
matters affecting them are heard.
What PEOPLE has done for you ...
- PASSED The Family and Medical Leave Act -- allows up to 12
weeks of unpaid leave for the birth or adoption of a child or the serious
illness of a parent, spouse or child.
- DEFEATED legislation that would have forced local governments to consider privatizing public water systems.
- DEFEATED legislation that would have privatized public highways and transportation systems.
- PREVENTED TANF reauthorization that would have led to privatization of thousands of social services jobs.
- PASSED permanent COLA legislation that gives retirees automatic pension increases.
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What PEOPLE 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 HMOs.
- FIGHTING to keep state and federal funding levels to ensure the protection of our member jobs and the programs they administer.
- FIGHTING to maintain union protections and public service jobs.
- FIGHTING against federal and state attacks on education, health care and workers' rights.
An Agenda for working families The PEOPLE
agenda is to work toward fair and progressive legislation for all Americans.
With the PEOPLE Program, you can have a say on legislation that will have an
impact on the federal, state and local government budgets. Our families are
more secure and our communities healthier when everyone has a chance at a decent
job, education for our children and affordable health care. Join with the
thousands across the country and have a voice on the federal policies that
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