Gov. Quinn, in his budget address, announced plans to close 24 local community offices of the Department of Human Services - on top of several offices threatened with shut-down before June. NA4J, in alliance with religious leaders, community groups and human service workers, is fighting these cuts to basic human services.
One part of the plan, apparently pushed by Quinn's Director of Central Management Services (CMS), would shut an office that is in decent physical condition, has multiple bus and rail lines plus parking and shopping that enables visitors to handle multiple tasks in one trip. Instead, tens of thousands of people would have to travel farther to an office with no rail line, fewer bus routes, serious building code violations and is already overcrowded and understaffed.
On March 5, NA4J and Alliance for Community Services partners will testify at a Worker Rights Board hearing on how these shut downs would affect our community and constituencies.
March 01, 2012
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