David Shapira AZ (D) has set up a website designed to support Arizona teachers, firemen, police etc from Gov Brewer's dark mission to dismantle all their unions and bargaining power!
ABOUT DAVID
Representative David Schapira is a native Arizonan. He is a small business owner and educator whose career has been rooted in improving his community.
David has represented Tempe and South Scottsdale since his election in 2006. In addition to his service at the Legislature, he is a member of the Political Science faculty at ASU. David and his wife own a small business in Tempe. DevilDash.com is a care package delivery service that caters to students in the ASU area.
David previously served as a public high school teacher in the Valley, as an aide to US Senator Tom Daschle in Washington, DC and as manager of Terry Goddard's 2002 campaign for Arizona Attorney General. David, a cancer survivor, has also worked with the American Cancer Society both as staff and as a volunteer.
David’s focus at the Legislature is the education of Arizona’s children. As a former public school teacher, he knows the future of education in Arizona depends on investing in student learning, reducing class sizes, paying teachers reasonable wages and working to make sure our state’s universities are leaders in higher education and research. He has served for the last two years as the ranking member of the House Education Committee.
David has been recognized as a top legislator by the Arizona Student Association, American Cancer Society, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Arizona Technology Council. He was also named one of six "Lawmakers Who Made a Difference" and one of five "Emerging Leaders Worth Watching" by the Arizona Republic.
A product of Arizona public schools, David also attended Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University before receiving his Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
David, his wife Rosemary and their daughter reside in Tempe.
Gov. Jan Brewer uses ALEC keynote address to declare war on the civil service merit selection system
Posted by azBlueMeanie:
I have been warning you about this ALEC initiative for months. During the last legislative session there was Frank Antenori's secret plan to end civil service merit selection system for county employees, HB 2650, which singled out the state of Maricopa for exclusion from its provisions, clearly unconstitutional on equal protection grounds.
Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed the bill, not because she disagreed but because Jan Brewer wants to be the Scott Walker of the West:
The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) has more. Brewer pitches personnel plan to lawmakers, but there may not be time:
Lawmakers have been briefed about a plan by Gov. Jan Brewer to remove state employees from the state’s merit system.
Senate President Russell Pearce said the Governor’s Office gave a draft of the proposal to lawmakers nearly a month ago. He said the state needs personnel reform, but the plan still needs work, and there may not be time to do it before the legislative session ends.
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Details are scant about the proposal and the Governor’s Office did not release a draft of the plan that was given to lawmakers. But the gist of it is to remove “covered” state personnel from merit protection[.]
“The caucus is supportive of it. The problem is you’re trying to introduce something at the tail end of session,” said Sen. Ron Gould, R-Lake Havasu City.
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“Either you play cram down like we saw with the so-called jobs bill,” Gould said. “Or if you call us back into special session to do this you get the same effect.”
Gov. Brewer wants to eliminate the merit system of public employment for state employees, returning to the spoils system of political patronage and cronyism. Public employees would have an incentive to keep working for politicians and their party — as opposed to a system of awarding employment on the basis of some measure of merit independent of political activity. This bill is far worse than the attack on collective bargaining in Wisconsin. Gov. Brewer wants to be the Scott Walker of the West.
On Wednesday, standing before her corporate enablers at the ALEC Summit, Boss Tweed Gov. Brewer declared war on the civil service merit selection system. The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports Brewer prepares ’12 push for personnel reform - Arizona Capitol Times:
Gov. Jan Brewer is getting ready for a 2012 push to revamp the rules governing the hiring and firing of state employees.
The governor announced her intentions Wednesday at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s States and Nation Policy Summit. She said state personnel reform will be one of her top priorities in the 2012 legislative session and that she will ask lawmakers to pass a package of reforms (.pdf) that will consolidate the state’s personnel systems; improve management of the workforce; restructure the system for filing appeals and grievances; and modify human resources practices.
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