title: Declassification and divisiveness in human services.
abstract: The issue of declassification can be used to promote divisions between professional social workers and other human service workers. The author examines the experience of declassification and Benchmark in the Michigan Human Services Employment Unit. Collective bargaining is suggested as a means for both addressing social work education qualifications and career ladders for human service workers.
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D003098:Collective Bargaining; D004522:Educational Status; D006077:Government Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008824:Michigan; D012947:Social Work / Q000145:classification*