Independent State Store Union Denounces Anti-Employee PLCB-Sponsored Legislation

HARRISBURG, Pa., June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has begun their assault on employee rights and the privatization of its workforce.  A PLCB-sponsored bill, HB 1356, part of their privatization-lite initiative, was moved out of the House Liquor Control Committee June 21, 2011.

This bill denies all future employees of any Civil Service rights and eliminates the veterans' preference in the hiring process as currently provided by law.  Under current Civil Service rules, veterans receive a ten-point preference when testing to be hired.  This bill strips veterans of the preference rights currently guaranteed under Civil Service and permits the agency to merely consider veterans' preference in hirings as an option – not a requirement.  This provision is a slap to the face for our proud and deserving veterans.

An amendment to HB 1356 also passed which will effectively strip current employees of Civil Service rights.  Civil Service status will only be retained by current employees as long as they remain in the same position.  Once a person takes another position, they will lose Civil Service status.

"In their lust to act as a 'world-class retailer,' the current management with the PLCB has denigrated all past and present employees, veteran and non-veteran alike, who have been the backbone of this government agency," says David Wanamaker, president of the Independent State Store Union.  

"Unfortunately, the House Liquor Control Committee took action in this bill without the benefit of public hearings to assess the real impacts and the far reaching implications of the proposal on current employees and veterans," Wanamaker said.  "Hopefully, the House of Representatives will be more deliberative and thoughtful should this bill ever come before them for a vote – especially with respect to veterans' preference and protections for workers," he concluded.

SOURCE Independent State Store Union

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