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1. Rights
2. Negotiations
3. Due Process
4. Legal Voice
5. Positive Problem
Solving
6. Voice on Capital Hill
7. Member Control
8. Local Control
9. Professional
Development
10. National Connection
11. Source of Information
12. Leadership
13. Current Benefits
14. Special Services
15. USEA Dues
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USEA Membership Benefits
1. Your Voice for Rights
USEA fights for
fair treatment of classified employees. We know employment laws and
district policies because we deal with them every day. If our members have
a question about their rights, a call to the USEA office is all it takes.
2. Your Voice in Negotiations
Employee
salaries and benefits don't just appear- they are negotiated. USEA assists
local leaders with research and presentations of ideas to improve the
working conditions of all classified employees. We have won these types of
benefits for classified employees: Salary Increases, Insurance Coverage,
Vacation Benefits, Sick Leave, Personal Leave, Bereavement Leave, Sick Leave
Banks, Early Retirement Programs, Certification Pay, Retirement Benefits.
3. Your Voice In Due Process
Because of USEA,
Classified Professionals are included under the protections of Utah's
Orderly Termination Act. This law grants career classified employees due
process when faced with a reduction in pay, work hours or even termination.
Due process includes the right to know and rebut allegations and evidence
against you, the right to present your case, and the right to a fair
hearing. USEA members faced with discipline meetings or a hearing can call
on a USEA Labor Representative or staff attorney to stand by them to assist
and represent them through the process.
4. Your Work-related Legal Voice
USEA provides
all members with free job-related legal services. For school employees,
legal problems can arise whether you're doing your job right or wrong.
Sometimes, employers overstep their legal bounds in dealing with their
employees. In either case, USEA will be there to help represent your
interests at no cost to you - not school district interests, not teacher
interests, not student interests, but yours!
5.
Your Voice for Positive Problem Solving
Many workers are
faced with situations they just need help with such as job appeals,
insurance issues, workers' compensation claims, or ordinary workplace
conflicts. USEA's Labor Representatives are trained to work with these
issues; and because they work for you and not your school district or
teachers, they can often say the difficult things you cannot.
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6. Your Voice on Capitol Hill
USEA is the only
organization on Utah's capitol hill lobbying exclusively for Classified
Professionals with the Utah Legislature and local school boards. USEA has
won inclusion for classified employees in Utah's Orderly Termination Law
which protects against unreasonable dismissal. USEA speaks out against all
forms of privatization in public schools. USEA also successfully lobbied for
a law which requires that Classified Professionals (including part-time
workers) receive a larger compensation increase than their higher paid
teaching and administrative counterparts in education. In 1999, USEA
negotiated on average about .25% additional increase for classified
employees because of this law.
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7. Your Voice for Member Control
The driving
force behind USEA is the member. Members manage and run our state
organization and do it for less than other organizations providing similar
services. Our Executive Board consists of Classified Professionals elected
from throughout Utah. These people donate thousands of hours each year to
make our organization work. They provide guidance and direction to our
professional staff members and assure that dues money is spent in the best
interest of members.
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8. Your Voice For Local Control
USEA local
chapters are independent. The state organization and full-time staff serve
as resources for your locally elected officers; usually a President, Vice
President and several Executive Board members. USEA is also independent.
Although our national affiliation is with the National Education
Association, it remains completely independent. No one will ever come to
your local officers and tell them that USEA requires members to participate
in any activity which local members do not agree with.
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9. Your Voice For
Professional Development
Each year USEA
conducts training workshops for its members and officers. Topics range from
negotiating methods and tactics to helping members handle grievances. These
training sessions also give local officers a chance to learn from their
counterparts from other districts. Training sessions often involve USEA's
Executive Board, Labor Relations Representatives and the USEA attorney.
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10. Your National Connection
USEA Delegates
approved a national affiliation with the Education Support Professionals of
the National Education Association (NEA) at the 2004 Delegate Conference.
The affiliation with NEA provides members with access to the buying power
and lobbying power of over 2.7 million members throughout the country. This
means USEA members have access to group rates on insurance plans and buying
discounts. The affiliation also means that USEA members have a voice in the
largest professional employees organization in the country. We encourage you
to visit their website at
www.nea.org.
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11. Your Source For Information
The USEA Review
is USEA's newsletter and primary way to get information out to its concerned
members. The quarterly newsletter keeps members informed about current
events and USEA activities. The state organization also maintains this
website and helps locals in publishing and mailing their own
newsletters. USEA conducts an annual salary survey used in negotiations which
ranks benchmark positions in school districts throughout Utah. USEA also
maintains an annual Benefits Analysis and reference information which
include OSHA regulations, wage and hour regulations, district financial
records, labor arbitration cases and legal materials involving labor issues
and several law research libraries.
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12. Your Opportunity for
Leadership
USEA is always
searching for Classified Professionals who take pride in their work and want
to make the lives of their coworkers better. People with ideas and
commitment are needed. Local chapter officers and committee people are the
keystones of our organization. They are the eyes and ears of state leaders
who are constantly on the alert for new ways to offer benefits and services
to our USEA members. USEA operates on democratic principles of participation
and fairness. Its state and local officers are elected by the people they
represent and serve. If you want to make a difference in your workplace - if
you want to be able to vote for the people who speak for you - if you want a
voice in your own future - you need to join USEA.
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13. Your Source for Current
Benefits
USEA began
representing Classified Professionals in Utah in 1938. If you enjoy any of
the following benefits, chances are that USEA members and resources were
instrumental in winning them: Sick Leave, Vacation Pay, Retirement Programs,
Personal Leave, Bereavement Leave, Health Insurance, Short-term Disability,
Long-term Disability, Payroll Deductions, Sick Leave Bank, Unlimited Sick
Leave, Early Retirement, Cashout of Unused Sick Leave.
14. Your Source for Special
Services
Term Life
Insurance, Dental Insurance, Discount Automobile
Insurance through
Nationwide Insurance, Return of Dues Policy, Vacation
Discounts, Retirement Issues. More information is available from the USEA
office about many programs. Please call for additional information on any
employment related issue or benefit.
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15. USEA Dues
USEA monthly
dues are lower than any other employees association providing similar
services in Utah and are arranged through payroll deduction. You receive
many valuable benefits. Click on the "application form" link below, fill out
the membership form, print it and sign it, and put it in the mail today.
There is great strength in numbers. Members working together can achieve
what individuals cannot. The great majority of Utah's Classified
Professionals have decided to join the USEA family. Executive Board and
staff members take care of the daily business of service for our membership.
For USEA the most important number is ONE. That one is YOU. Join USEA today.
You and your family will be glad you did.
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