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Custodians warn against privatization; committee orders multi-department vacancy reviews
Summary
Custodial staff urged the committee not to privatize custodial services and raised staffing and supply shortages. The committee adopted a motion directing 17 departments to report back on vacancies and related information in four cohort hearings; the motion passed as amended.
Several custodial employees and union representatives urged the Personnel and Hiring Committee not to privatize custodial work and described chronic understaffing and supply shortages at Los Angeles facilities.
Joe Martinez, executive board member for SEIU (speaker identified as representing SAU 721 in the transcript), told the committee that the general manager for General Services had sought budget authority to privatize custodial positions in the Valley, which would replace union jobs and remove long-time employees from city work.
"We have people that have been working here for several years, 20, 30 years out here," Martinez said, and said privatization would…
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