STOP EEOC’S RESTRUCTURING AND PRIVATIZED CONTACT CENTER!
View the letter to Chairman Wolf and Ranking Member Serrano 
We need the immediate help of every EEOC Union member to stop Chair Dominguez from restructuring and privatizing our agency. Chair Dominguez’s plans could affect the future of your job and your working conditions. Fortunately, Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH), a former EEOC Trial Attorney, is leading the effort to fight back against the agency’s workforce repositioning initiative. Here are the issues, how the letter works, and what you can do:
Reducing Offices and Privatizing Enforcement Functions: Remember the NAPA report? The crux of the report was that we have too many offices, which could be reduced by relying on a national call center and e-filing of charges. In February 2004, the EEOC submitted its budget request to Congress, asking for $5 million to fund Workforce Repositioning, including a national contact center. In March 2004, the agency charged a Repositioning Workgroup with making recommendations regarding reducing the current number of offices, determining where ten or eleven mega district offices should be located and how the remaining field offices should be distributed. Also in March 2004 the EEOC posted a solicitation for bids for a private contractor to run a national contact center. Telemarketers with a week of training will answer calls from the public. Using scripts intended to be a substitute for our knowledgeable employees, they will determine application of our laws and jurisdiction.
How the Sign On Letter Works: Rep. Tubbs Jones is asking her colleagues in the House of Representatives to sign on to a letter to be sent to EEOC’s Appropriations Subcommittee, which asks that they deny any funding in the FY2005 appropriations bill to EEOC to establish a privatized call center and close offices. The more lawmakers who sign on, the more likely Congress will deny the EEOC the funding the Chair needs to close our offices and privatize our work.
What You Can Do: Go to www.house.gov to look up your Representative, so that you can call, e-mail or fax the following message:
I AM CALLING [OR WRITING] TO URGE REPRESENTATIVE __________ TO SIGN ON TO A LETTER SPONSORED BY REPRESENTATIVE TUBBS JONES, REQUESTING APPROPRIATIONS BILL LANGUAGE TO PREVENT THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION FROM ESTABLISHING A PRIVATIZED CALL CENTER AND CLOSING OFFICES. THE STAFF CONTACT IN HER OFFICE IS TERENCE HOUSTON.
Questions? Please contact Rachel Shonfield, Legislative Coordinator at legco216@aol.com, 305-530-6003.