Mediation and Legal Updates

Mediation Update Unite Summit and SPS met Wednesday with our PERB appointed mediator. The mediator emphasized that they are neutral and impartial and their job is to encourage both parties to make movement in their proposals. We are hopeful that in this next step in bargaining, we will make significant progress with SPS in creatingContinue reading “Mediation and Legal Updates”

CBA Update #23

Bargaining Update Today we had our 23rd bargaining session with Summit. Summit’s team presented a document with all of their proposals, which you can view here. They made movement on the below three proposals.  Summit Proposals Class size Summit’s most recent proposal aligned with our proposal for class sizes in most areas. Core content courses:Continue reading “CBA Update #23”

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”

Bargaining Survey Postponed

Update on bargaining input surveyWe have decided to postpone our survey circulation until next week so that we add questions related to our Job Duties and Work Hours proposal. As previously announced, we will also be soliciting input related to the following proposals: Employment Status, Discipline and Dismissal, and Shared Governance. We apologize for theContinue reading “Bargaining Survey Postponed”