California State Retirees

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California State Retirees (CSR) is the largest organization representing retired California state government employees.[ citation needed ] Organizing health care and pension benefits 36,000 members. It is an affiliate of the California State Employees Association headquartered in Sacramento, California. Other organizations may include retirees from various former employers, but California State Retirees is composed exclusively of state retirees.

The California State Employees Association (CSEA), was founded in 1932 in Sacramento, California. The organization itself grew out of a campaign to pass a ballot initiative to amend the California state constitution to create a retirement system for California state workers. As a result of the campaign, the core of leadership for the campaign went on to create the association to maintain the momentum of that political victory by forming a credit union, now known as The Golden One Credit Union, for state employees, winning voter approval of the merit system for state civil service, and a 40-hour workweek and, finally in 1979, winning collective bargaining rights for state and university employees in the California legislature, also known as the Dills Act after its author Senator Ralph C. Dills. When California adopted collective bargaining for state employees in 1979, CSEA began a long period of reorganization wherein its members were divided into four distinct classes depending on their employment or retirement status with the State of California. Ultimately, each of the four classes of members formally incorporated their respective organizations within the pre-existing corporate structure of CSEA as affiliates of CSEA. Each of these four affiliates have assumed authority for their respective member representation programs. CSEA now only provides business services of accounting, IT and member benefits for the four affiliated organizations which represent active and retired state and California State University system employees. CSEA governance is currently an eight-member board of directors composed of two representatives from each of the four affiliates. The board of directors elects its officers, as required by California corporate code, from among these eight board members.

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California State Retirees was previously known as California State Employees Association Retirees (CSEA Retirees) until September 2011. [1]

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References

  1. ↑ Massimino, Micaela (2011-09-29). "CSEA Retirees now California State Retirees, broadens reach". The Sacramento Bee . Archived from the original on 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
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