Dear Unite Summit family, Yesterday, we began the process of requesting a mediator to help our union and Summit’s bargaining team continue to find common ground in agreeing to our first contract. The Public Employment Relations Board trains and assigns mediators to support contract negotiations and help employers and unions come to agreements. WeContinue reading “Moving on to mediation”
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CBA Update #27
We are now fourteen months into negotiating our contract! And while we have not agreed to a final contract, we continue to work for what we believe is most important: a contract that meets the most important needs of our Summit educators, seeks common ground with Summit’s bargaining team, and makes the concessions necessary toContinue reading “CBA Update #27”
CBA Update #26
Back at Bargaining! SPS came back to the bargaining table with these proposals (all are in this document). Recognition – Summit Public Schools made movement in this article to align with California law and automatically include any potential new Summit schools in our union. However, SPS still wants to maintain the right to use subcontracting toContinue reading “CBA Update #26”
CBA Update #25
Bargaining Update On Wednesday we had our 25th bargaining session with Summit. A summary of our and Summit’s proposals are below. We notified Summit that we will be sending them a comprehensive proposal for the full Collective Bargaining Agreement by close of business on Wednesday, May 5. If Summit is able to make substantive movementContinue reading “CBA Update #25”
Virtual School Petition and Bargaining Update #9
Highlighted in this newsletter: We believe Home Office has made illegal changes to virtual school, including taking away our sites’ flexibility to schedule LT/GLT/MLT meetings. We have emailed SPS leadership and executive directors to ask that all changes are immediately reversed and that any future changes are bargained with our union. In order to showContinue reading “Virtual School Petition and Bargaining Update #9”
Our Third Bargaining Session
Unite Summit and the SPS bargaining team held their third contract negotiation meeting today. As part of the meeting, Unite Summit continued to advocate for a counter proposal from SPS regarding our position on the calendar and schedule for the 2020-2021 school year. Here is the formatted proposal and proposed calendar from Unite Summit. TodayContinue reading “Our Third Bargaining Session”
Our First Bargaining Session!
3/20/2020 Today we held our first bargaining meeting related to our contract! Please read our opening statement if you’d like to learn more about the principles guiding this work. Since improving support services for students is one of our top priorities, we led with our proposal on mental health, ELL, and diverse learner supports. WeContinue reading “Our First Bargaining Session!”