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PEF couldn’t delay agency, union switch
Despite PEF’s request for a delay, 44 employees at the state School for the Blind in Batavia are now working for the state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), instead of the state Education Department (SED), which operates the school.
These employees provide direct-care services in two intensive care facilities (ICFs) that house the most severely impaired students at the school. OMRDD assumed operational responsibility for the ICFs earlier this year.
Teachers and other employees at the school are still working for SED.
When the planned switch was announced August 18, PEF asked for more time to resolve issues such as seniority, compensation and union representation that arose because the affected employees were in unclassified civil service titles at SED.
Although the SED titles were represented by PEF, the OMRDD job titles are not part of the PS&T bargaining unit and are represented by the Civil Service Employees Association. — Sherry Halbrook | |
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