N. CA Carpenters UBC Oppose Sale Of Adams Middle School To Ron Beller/Caliber Charter

Timothy Lipscomb, the senior representative of Northern California District Council Of Carpenters UBC and with Local 152 spoke on June 12, 2016 at a labor community press conference and called for the rejection of the sale of the WCCSD Adams Middle Schoo which has 6 acres l for $60,000 to Ron Beller, the owner of the Caliber Charter School chain. Beller told the UBC that he could not afford union wages for the building and wanted them to make a contribution to the non-union Caliber charter school chain. Beller is a former Goldman Sachs subprime speculator who set up his own hedge fund Peloton which went bankrupt in 2008 and lost $17 billion. UTR teachers and other community members spoke about the need to oppose this charter and have union workers building public schools and working in them. The Aspire charter chain which recently built a new school in the neighborhood had promised the community that it would be built with union labor. Instead they used the anti-labor developer Chamberlin and non-union Big D Pacific Builders-Education Division. Big D brought in construction workers from Nevada who were paid $15.00 an hour. Chamberlin has also contributed tens of thousands of dollars to pro-charter WCCSD members such as Val Cuevas. Cuevas received $59,000 through their pro-charter front Education Matters and $2500 directly to Cuevas. Chamberlin builds the charter schools non-union and then leases them to the charter operator with the school district having to pay rent to Chamberlin.
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