Your YCTA Bargaining Team thanks you for your show of support in RED.
YCTA Bargaining Update in two bullets with more detail below.
We are providing this update in multiple
parts. In this first installment, we present the facts
without any reaction from our Team. We leave it to YOU to react first and then we will share
our reactions and proposals for the next steps. After we REACT, we will ACT TOGETHER.
The District passed YCTA a package proposal (attached) at 2:46PM on February 14 (Our scheduled end time in light of Valentine's Day was 3PM). The District proposed to extend the contract to June 30, 2016 with NO DISCUSSION OF ANY ONGOING INCREASE TO COMPENSATION UNTIL AT LEAST 2014/2015 and limited reopeners for 14/15. (Side Note: COLA is expected to be funded at least at 1.65% for 13/14 and additional money is also likely.) In addition, the District proposed that advancement on the salary schedule would be denied to any member who did not work at least 75% of the teaching days of the year or who did not receive a satisfactory evaluation. The District also proposed deleting contract language regarding a process for determining fair and equitable total compensation using data from surrounding districts. The underlined is newly proposed text and the strike-out indicates text to be removed.
Earlier in the day.....YCTA continued to assert
our right to negotiate prior to unilateral mandate for ABI Gradebook.
YCTA passed the District a three page proposal to address ABI gradebook. Members of the District Bargaining Team
indicated they were “done” reading it within 2 minutes. YCTA's interest is to protect the educational
decision making of teachers with regards to their gradebooks and to encourage
effective communication with parents and students regarding student
progress.
Our next scheduled date is
in two weeks - Thursday February 28.
Our next Rep Council meeting is Monday, February 25. Be sure your site is well represented at this meeting. We will be planning our next steps.
As you ponder your reaction to this latest
proposal from YCUSD, please consider the following from across the river.
Marysville settled for a one-time retroactive payment of 1.64% to pay back the
only prior salary cut from 2010/2011 (three days compared to our nine), plus an
ongoing 2% increase and $100 increase in the CAP. Our District offered NO INCREASE. Marysville's increase is the
equivalent of a 3.8% increase effective this year. More details on this to follow. |
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