We are blown away by the support demonstrated at walk-ins this morning. THREE HUNDRED MEMBERS turned out across EVERY SCHOOL SITE to demonstrate our commitment to our contract proposals. We also had multiple members come and share testimony at last week’s rescheduled school committee meeting, attend the AFT MA State Convention, and help plan these … Continue reading 5/13 Negotiations Update
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4/29 Negotiations Update
What Happened We were very pleased to see Ana Hernandez at the table, the chair of the School Committee. We’ve come to agreement on many items, including adjustments to funeral leave, personal leave, commencement leave, and religious leave, an alumni hiring incentive, snow days and PD for clerks, paid prep time for paras and educators … Continue reading 4/29 Negotiations Update
4/8 Negotiations Update
Hello CTU! I’m writing with the follow up to our negotiation session with the district on 4/8. The district has made movement on a variety of topics, but unfortunately little movement on the things that matter most to our members and our students, like paid leave, wages, and class size and caseload caps. For example, … Continue reading 4/8 Negotiations Update
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Negotiations Update 3/4
Negotiations Process (How) We are bringing proposals for all three of our units simultaneously. The district proposed instead negotiating the contracts consecutively, moving through Unit A (Educators) first, then Unit B (paras), and finally Unit C (clerks). One of our three goals for negotiations is to obtain more equitable contracts across our units, so we … Continue reading Negotiations Update 3/4
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