Greater Orange News Service

OUSD employee groups to unite under CalPERS Health Trust

The Orange Unified School District’s three employee groups will unite under one health plan by all three joining the CalPERS Health Trust. The three employee groups had been in separate health plans. The district’s administrators Leadership group and support staff union (CSEA) were in one group plan and the teachers union (OUEA) in another. OUSD Superintendent Dr. Renae Dreier had supported the long-time teachers’ goal of containing soaring health costs by uniting the three groups under one plan when she was first hired by OUSD.

The goal of one plan had been a position of the OUEA since being forced by the infamous Recalled Board to abandon their own health trust almost ten years ago. Until Dreier, no other OUSD administration had made the goal a priority.

The $6 billion CalPERS Health Fund began inviting local governmental agencies to join it in 2007. It is one of the largest health funds in the U.S.

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