Have you heard about the recent
settlements? Both Chico and Stockton
were on the verge of strikes and have reached
settlements that provide improvements in contractual language as well as salary
increases. Marysville did not even
need to get to the brink of strike to reach a
settlement. You can get more details about the Marysville and Chico
settlements in the latest issue of the YCTA Unifier - soon to be delivered to
your site. You can also ask your Site Rep to share the newest salary
comparison between YC and Marysville after their latest raise. Or you can
come to YCTA meeting at Gray Ave on Tuesday 4/28.
How did they do it? By organizing and standing together. We will do that
as well.
There is good news from Stockton, that is
particularly relevant to us. They have added paid
collaboration time to their contract.
Part of the pay raise they secured was the result of paid collaboration time as
well as paid parent engagement time. About 2.3% will be added to their
salary schedule by adding 1.5 hours of paid collaboration time every two
weeks. They negotiated parameters for PLCs that allow for teacher-driven
collaboration to address improving instruction. In addition they added
nine hours of parent engagement time to build relationships with parents as
partners in the education of students (adding about 0.8% to the salary
schedule) I have inserted the relevant language from their TA below, but you
can access their entire agreement on the Stockton Teachers Association
website. These are exciting and innovative ideas to address the goals of
the LCAP.
Your YCTA Bargaining Team will bring our
proposal to the bargaining table on May 14. Our proposal will include paid
collaboration time. We ask that you support
the power of our Bargaining Team to negotiate on behalf of all our YCTA
members. You can do this by standing with YCTA.
Be there on Tuesday 4/28 at Gray Ave. Beginning at 4PM, You can ...
- Pick up
your new YCTA blue tee-shirt. You will be able to wear it next Blue
Thursday.
- Get some
updates from YCTA including details of our sunshine proposal for 2015/2016
- Vote to
ratify the work year TA.
- Stay until 5:30PM to show the Board we are united
in support for our Bargaining Team
- We will
present our sunshine proposal to the Board before they go into closed
session at Gray Ave.
- We will be done at 5:45PM. You
can go out to dinner with other members.
We are YCTA and
together we can make a difference. Let's do it.
Join me next
Tuesday,
Dina
P.S. I love this one from Stockton's organizing efforts:
You can't put
students first, if you put teachers last. | 
