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 ABOUT US
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This Union’s purposes shall be to:
- Represent its Members and all persons in its bargaining unit(s) in all their professional and
employment relations with their employer, by employing organizing, bargaining, litigation,
lobbying, and such other collective actions as may be necessary and appropriate.
- Unite all workers within this Union’s jurisdiction, regardless of their race, national origin,
socio-economic status, job classification, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or religion.
To realize its purposes, this Union’s goals shall be to:
- Secure, promote, and protect the employment rights of all unit members to assure economic
security, a safe and healthy working environment, and fair and equitable treatment.
- Secure, promote, and protect the equal employment opportunities for all and recognize that
affirmative action is necessary to achieve this goal.
- Educate CSO’s Members in the history of the labor movement and in contemporary labor
problems and tactics, to develop unity and loyalty to this Union, as we study and act on the
problems of its Members.
- Develop and maintain parity and partnership with all unit members’ employers.
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Core Values of the California Staff Organization
The Core Values of the California Staff Organization comprise the shared beliefs of our membership. Each core value is embraced, lived, nurtured, taught, and reinforced in our professional endeavors as members of CSO. It is the following Core Values we honor.
Advocacy
We will achieve the professional and economic goals of CSO members and our families through effective union advocacy.
Solidarity
We will honor and respect our CSO colleagues. We will sustain an organization characterized by true and abiding concern, trust, loyalty and support for our sisters and brothers, their families and our greater society. We will stand together embracing diversity within our organization and the greater society. We will respect each other’s individuality, just as we affirm our need for collective responsibility.
Relationship Building/Organizing
We will strengthen CSO and enhance our ability to more effectively represent our members by building strong personal relationships among our members and organizing ourselves for collective action.
Commitment to Public Education
We will work in partnership with members of the California Teachers Association and other coalitions to support, protect and enhance our public schools. We will insist that all educational employees are accorded the respect, support and resources commensurate with their roles and contribution to society. We will seek to ensure all students are provided an equal opportunity to attain the knowledge and skills they need to enjoy productive and meaningful lives.
Social Justice
We will contribute to our profession and society through individual and collective commitments to social progress and democratic values.
Unanimously adopted, April 5, 2003 at the CSO Annual Meeting
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Union Code of Conduct
of the California Staff Organization
- I will not criticize any union colleague except to the individual directly.
- If any union colleague is being criticized in my presence, I will confront the criticism and ask that it stop.
- I will not participate in any conversation with management that criticizes, or negatively speculates about, any union colleague.
- I will settle my differences with colleagues within my union.
- I will engage in debate, offer others every opportunity for debate and respect minority viewpoints, but I will observe and support the majority mandate of my union.
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