BarbaraM

California public school kids can do limited "grounds maintenence" due to union rules. Kids tending gardens beyond the class vegie patch is "supplanting union labor" and therefore a violation of labor rules. Union employees have opposed the Saturday "work detention" programs because students were doing labor that a union employee could get paid to do. Eager students couldn't even paint the pathetic bathrooms at our high school last year unless they bought the paint with outside money because if the materials are purchased with public school funds a union employee must apply the paint. Now with the budget crisis and the deferred maintenence monies cut by the state the union labor rules are going to be challenged by our district.

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