This November is about winning for better jobs, quality healthcare, improved working conditions and valuing workers. Below are the positions of SEIU ULTCW on key ballot initiatives that will impact our members and our communities.
Proposition 30: The Schools and Safety Protection Act of 2012
PROP 30 will put California’s finances on a firm footing, end the cuts to education, protect public safety, and ensure that the reforms we have just won will stay in place. Prop. 30 is critical step toward getting California back on track and investing in our common future. It asks families making over $500,000 a year to pay a little more to get California back on track. PROP 30 will prevent $6 billion in devastating cuts to our schools this year and provides billions in new funding for our schools starting this year – money schools need for smaller class sizes, up-to-date textbooks and rehiring teachers. All the funding under PROP 30 is temporary and the initiative can’t be modified without voter approval.
POSITION TAKEN: SUPPORT
Yes on 30 Website: (English only)
Proposition 32: Stop the Special Exemptions Act
PROP 32 is a trick. It was designed to appear balanced but really creates special exemptions allowing corporate special interests and Super PACs to spend with NO LIMITS in politics, while eliminating the voice of workers. It’s unbalanced, unfair and does nothing to address the broken system in Sacramento. It simply gives corporate CEO’s even more power to write their own rules at the expense of everyone else. PROP 32 is the first of a “one-two” punch. The anti-union backers are trying to fool voters into passing this measure now so they can come back with measures later that strip away our rights like collective bargaining, (think Wisconsin), priorities like job security, funding for our programs and other vital services and even the right to have a union at all. Vote NO on PROP 32.
POSITION TAKEN: OPPOSE
No on 32 Web site: (English and Spanish)
http://www.stopspecialexemptions.org/
Other Important Propositions
Proposition 31: California Government Performance and Accountability Act
POSITION TAKEN: OPPOSE
Proposition 33: Insurance Persistency Discounts Act
POSITION TAKEN: OPPOSE
Proposition 38: Molly Munger’s State Income Tax Increase to Support Education Initiative
ULTCW is supporting Prop. 30 for education and public safety.
POSITION TAKEN: OPPOSE
Proposition 40: Referendum on the State Senate Redistricting Plan
POSITION TAKEN: SUPPORT
NOTE: Propositions not mentioned on this guide indicates that ULTCW has not taken a position.