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Privatization puts health coverage in peril

As San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders moves to outsource city departments, contractors bidding for city work may lower their price by eliminating workers' health insurance.

CPI is proposing protections to keep contractors from winning the right to take over our city services by denying health coverage to workers.  The City Council is scheduled to vote on our proposals at 2 p.m. Monday.

Please join us at City Hall or contact the Councilmembers!
2 p.m. Monday, July 28
202 C St., 12th floor council chambers

CPI released a report last week, the second in our series on The Working Uninsured, showing that the private sector leaves huge numbers of workers uninsured in major blue-collar occupations.

In some of the occupations targeted for outsourcing -- for example construction laborers and grounds maintenance -- nearly half of all workers are completely uninsured for medical expenses.

The city workers who now maintain our streets and parks have health benefits.  Privatization that strips those jobs of health coverage may appear to save money in the short term, but only at the considerable long-term cost to the community of increasing the numbers of uninsured.

If San Diego privatizes city services through Sanders' "managed competition" plan, contractors must not be able to gain an unfair advantage by denying their workers healthcare.

Help CPI win that basic reform on Monday!  Tell the City Council to Do It Right and protect healthcare!

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