Outsourcing victory at CalPERS adds 86 jobs
Expensive private vendors to be replaced by Unit 1 IT
professionals
Local 1000’s fight against wasteful outsourcing has tallied
another win: CalPERS has agreed to hire 86 skilled workers,
mostly information technology (IT) professionals in Bargaining
Unit 1, to reduce the agency’s reliance on contractors. The
positions should be filled early this year.
Transferring work to employees
The new hires are key to CalPERS’ efforts to increase the
transfer of knowledge from private contractors who set up new IT
systems to state employees who will operate and maintain those
systems. Typically, outside consultants are paid two to four
times what the state pays for IT professionals.
For years, Local 1000 has been fighting with state departments
about the practice of hiring private contractors to install a new
computer system – and then hanging around for years to operate it
at a much higher cost than transferring the work to state
employees.
Report outsourcing in your office
If you are aware of a situation where private contractors are
performing work that could be done by Local 1000-represented
state workers, let us know and fill out the survey form
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