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Were you aware that in June 2010, the Springfield Urban league terminated 200 plus Head Start employees to save $18,000? The normal “layoff” period in the summer was changed to “termination due to the healthcare provisions mandating the company to pay part of the “laid off” workers COBRA . When questioned about it SUL stated that this was normal procedure. Normal procedure for the school year ending in May has always been layoff for 20 plus years. It is peculiar that the CEO received an increase in pay of 19% while average worker received 1.84%. Now the agency is embroiled in a Unionization fight and has terminated 30 plus employees because of their job titles in order to dilute the voting pool. There has been no reduction in funding from the Federal Government yet some terminations were due to “budget Constraints”. It is not a large stretch to see the forest for the trees when the agency has hired high priced union busting lawyers to address the issue of Unionization.