It’s another instance where a Department of Indiana State Government made a mistake. Yet they want Hoosiers to pay the penalty for the state’s mistake. A penalty of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Scores of union school bus drivers and Head Start teachers and workers were victims of a mistake by employees of the State’s Department of Workforce Development. During the summer months school bus drivers, Head Start workers and others who work most of the year, but have a hiatus during the summer, used to be able to file for unemployment benefits. But the Legislature changed the law prohibiting it. But it seems none told employees at state unemployment offices who approved the benefits when workers applied. Now, after catching their mistake, the state wants the workers to payback the cash, even though it was the state that screwed up.
Grigette Yancey, President AFSCME Local 3826
Appearing on Afternoons with Amos, Grigette Yancey, President of AFSCME Local 3826 which represents bus drivers who work for Durham Transportation came on the program to make their case for fairness. Joining Yancey was Carli Stevenson with AFSCME and Bill Groth attorney for the workers. The three made the case that like the mistake the state made in the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the state, which has admitted the error, should own up and not force employees to pay for the state’s mistake. Click the Media Player To Hear Grigette Yancey And Her Colleagues Make the Case for Fairness And Decency For These Workers. Runs 11 Minutes. ©2015 WTLC/Radio One.
