{"id":154679,"date":"2026-01-29T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154679\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:36:09","slug":"fresno-unified-employees-call-on-district-for-transparency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154679\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Unified employees call on district for transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Classified workers are calling on Fresno Unified to improve working conditions and create better outcomes for students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Members of the SEIU Local 521 union gathered in solidarity on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The union represents school bus drivers, cafeteria workers and grounds and maintenance teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They say the District is *not* prioritizing workplace health and safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Union members are also calling for better wages.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Unified responded to the claims saying in part negotiations are underway, but the talks are confidential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The district added staffing levels declined due to reduced enrollment after the pandemic and a decrease in state funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Classified workers are calling on Fresno Unified to improve working conditions and create better outcomes for students. Members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[75951,112,114,113,14569,75953,75952],"class_list":["post-154679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-cafeteria-workers","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-unified","tag-maintenance-teams","tag-seiu-local-521"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}