We made many more gains but we didn’t get everything we wanted or believe our members and students deserve. We also increased healthcare coverage while drastically cutting out of pocket health care costs. Plus, an 8.5% salary increase over three years instead of 2.5%. combo classes, reducing class sizes in 7-12 core classes, increasing many of the extra duty stipends AND removing the District effort to tie evaluations to movement on the salary schedule and forcing us to sit on campus for our 8th hour.
Last round you probably remember we had to push the District to the edge of a strike in order to get the necessary items needed to improve conditions for students and educators. Choosing the best process to secure the best contract for our members is dependent upon our relationship with the District.
CLASH OF CLANS BOT SINIRSIZ 2016 ÖZEL PROFESSIONAL
Our contract is always a priority for our members, bargaining a fair and professional contract is one of the most important aspects of our work. However, make no mistake, we will not agree to anything just in order to expedite this process. We strongly prefer for our voice and budget priorities be incorporated now as the District creates its budget for next year. It would also avoid the unneeded uncertainty of beginning next year with an expired contract. This would enable us to have a new contract in place just as our old contract expires. We hope we can come to an agreement that does that, by the mutually agreed upon end of the year deadline. We continue to work collaboratively with the District in order to best address the areas of concerns identified in our bargaining survey, our education summit, and our SPED town hall. So, in that effort, our bargaining team has been meeting weekly since January with the district. Yes, it seems like we just finished the last one! That is because it took almost two years to settle the last contract.
As you know our three-year contract expires at the end of this school year.