UESF Contract Details
The teachers' union, the UESF, has begun the process of polling its members to ratify the proposed contract with the district. They are conducting meetings, mailing ballots, and most interestingly, publishing information about the contract on the UESF website.
The following has been copied from a document they've published titled, (PDF) Tentative Agreement Highlights. Consider this a sales brochure from the union leadership to the members. For more a detailed and sober review of the contract proposal, take a look at their Tentative Agreement Summary.
The following has been copied from a document they've published titled, (PDF) Tentative Agreement Highlights. Consider this a sales brochure from the union leadership to the members. For more a detailed and sober review of the contract proposal, take a look at their Tentative Agreement Summary.
- Salary & Benefits
- 8.5% over two years (with 2% retroactivity to July 1, 2005) for all regularly assigned teachers and paraprofessionals—WIN
- Career increment E on Psych, Speech Pathologist, Nurse, and
- Social Worker schedules—WIN
- CDP salaries unfrozen—WIN
- Pilot program for 4/5 elementary prep—WIN
- Per diem pay for mandatory professional development WIN
- Health & Safety
- First aid kits in each classroom—WIN
- Assault protections improved—WIN
- Schools free of pests and rodents—WIN
- Asbestos safeguards—WIN
- Restrooms for use by adults only—WIN
- Working telephone in each classroom—WIN
- Protection for unit members from retaliation from administration for enforcing the contract WIN
- UBC
- Building Reps released from some non-classroom duties WIN
- Student Discipline
- Notification of history of violent actions by students—WIN
- Realistic guidelines for teacher initiated suspensions—WIN
- Conflict resolution training WIN
- CDP
- Fair pay for augmented hours—WIN
- Pay for lead teachers and substitute lead teachers increased—WIN
- Unfreeze salaries WIN
- Substitutes
- Increase day-to-day sub pay by reducing levels from 4 to 2—WIN
- CORE subs maintained (No layoffs!)—WIN
- Paraprofessional subs created—WIN
- Rights for site support subs—WIN
- Health benefits fund for 160 subs increased by 30% WIN
- Paraprofessionals (USP)
- Paid para staff development—WIN
- Binding arbitration for discipline short of dismissal—WIN
- Retiree health coverage in HSS for 77 social security paras—WIN
- Language limiting subcontracting para work WIN
- Other Items
- Bereavement leave expansion for domestic partners—WIN
- Sick leave bank improvement—WIN
- All unit members treated equally when implementing contract WIN
- District’s Initial Proposals
- 0% salary increase unless tied to a parcel tax and merit pay—DEFEATED
- Eliminate AP prep periods to fund 4th and 5th grade prep periods—DEFEATED
- Take away AP prep periods for teachers in High School—DEFEATED
- Take away rights of substitutes to say where and when they will work—DEFEATED
- Eliminate CORE Subs—DEFEATED
- Eliminate Sabbaticals—DEFEATED
- Reduce Industrial Accident Leave from the current 6 months to 90 days—DEFEATED
- Force use of sick-leave when injured on the job—DEFEATED
- Weaken rights of members to have a voice at work by reducing required UBC meetings
- with principals—DEFEATED
- Easier dismissal of paraprofessionals—DEFEATED
- Elimination of National Board Certified Teachers' stipend—DEFEATED
- No inclusion of paraprofessionals in professional development—DEFEATED
1 Comments:
Don't be fooled by Denis Kelly and his buddies propaganda. 'WIN" for who?
This is the truth that we received in the union handout:
2% retroactive for the 2005-2006 schoolyear - to
arrive in July 2006 paycheck.
NEXT year, 2006-2007 there is a raise of 3.5% to the
March paycheck.
Then the next month,April, there is another 3.5%.
THIS IS ONLY if you were hired AFTER 1993.
The dinosaurs who run the union negotiated a sweeter deal for themselves. Those hired BEFORE 1993 get the deal 3 months earlier. 3 more months of higher pay.
Nice huh? Such solidarity in a union. Two classes of people: those who started when I and my friends did, and the rest of you newbies who don’t count.
Who do you think needs the money more? Who is still paying off student loans? Who owns a house? Who rents?
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