Applications, Forms & Resources; Bullying Prevention & Statewide Resources; Expanded Learning Office (After-school and Summer Programs) Family Central process. Well, life comes at you fast. BOARD POLICY 1312.3. Strike over: Oakland teachers union reaches agreement with OUSD - MSN Paradise superintendent says construction helps show towns rebound This gave the Board all the leverage around the CG demands, and no amount of personal political pressure was enough to change that dynamic. A. Come ready to speak during public comment about: Your bargaining team met again yesterday, Wednesday, Jan. They know the areas. And tentative contract agreement must still be ratified by OEA members the approved for the school board. Review: Taylor Swift triumphs on Night 1 of Eras Tour at Levi's Stadium, Taylor Swift concert breaks Levis Stadium curfew, Thought it was gone? Please do not hesitate to reach out to our team LaborRelations@ousd.org. "We are really just hoping that OUSD is coming back. the membership later in March, includes: Despite the challenges of the current yearwith all the extra The OEA bargaining updates during the Spring semester focused almost exclusively on compensation. Chapter Vice President Donneva Reid addressed the crowd. on February1: IMPORTANT: Oakland Unified School District is laying out outbreak. After months of negotiating, the SEIU 1021 Oakland Unified School UAOS-OUSD Agreement In the window below this text, you should see the a pdf version of the current agreement between the United Administrators of Oakland Schools and OUSD. The union says what made the common proposals so tough to negotiate was in part determining what shared governance would look like. OUSD did not return requests for comment, but issued a brief statement welcoming the agreement. Harriette Cole: I thanked her for the gift -- then I found out it wasn't a gift, How to renew a California drivers license if youre over 70: a roundup of tips. the fight, we would not have reached this deal. day. negotiations yesterday and made progress on some of the NO CLOSURES! But the result is that the CG demands were lost in the shuffle and nowhere near the top of anyones radar. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality of service to employees, school communities, and District leadership in furtherance of OUSDs Mission, Vision, Values and Strategic Plan. But that is not the main lesson we should draw. It is good these MOUs exist, but their value remains to be seen. All members decision to proceed with additional closures of public It was and is an incredible feat of persistence and deserves recognition and appreciation. ~ OAKLAND UNIFIED ., SCHOOL DISTRICT ,mn u -I Schools, Thriving Students . Be the first one to, OUSD Collective Bargaining Agreement With Oakland Education Association (OEA), 5973240-OUSD-Collective-Bargaining-Agreement-With, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5973240-OUSD-Collective-Bargaining-Agreement-With.html, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). The tentative agreement contains important victories on a number of these issues, and lays the groundwork for continued progress on a number of other issues moving forward. Education is holding a special meeting TOMORROW, Tues., Feb. 8, And when we reached the point that disagreement over CG became part of the reason for going on strike, many members (myself included) were not informed. Statewide education fundingis the barrier to the kind of schools we want, ones with small class sizes and more support and resources for students. Complaint forms are available at school sites, on the district webpage at www.ousd.org/ombudsperson, at the Office of the Ombudsperson located at 1000 Broadway, 1st Floor, Suite 150, Oakland, CA 94607, via email at gabriel.valenzuela@ousd.org, or via telephone 510-879-4281. Attending our bargaining teams TA presentation is imperative to OUSD Chapter Bargaining Update: Weve Reached a Tentative Agreement! Submit your ideas for initial proposals here. BOARD POLICY 4030. ), Restoration of Clerical Mentorship Stipend (up to $6,000/year TONIGHT at 5pm: Protest OUSD School Closures! Officer Elections. City of Corpus Christi and police union reach new bargaining agreement We needed the Board to meet and authorize the OUSD negotiating team to bargain over the CG demands. PERB orders of March 28 and May 24, 1988 shall be included in the bargaining unit. Elissa holds masters degrees in journalism and policy from Stanford University and Lehigh University respectively, along with a bachelors degree in journalism and global studies from Lehigh. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian and United Nations agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia, where she wrote about child protection, global health and humanitarian crisis. student background documents for special-ed students for two All of which comes out to my pay going up $13,000 next year (11K in salary increase and another 2K from the step). How similar is the Oakland teachers strike to others in Chicago and Los Angeles. Most educators are familiar with what I call thead-hoclesson plan. But its difficult to win CG demands when most members and the larger community are not familiar with those demands. Join the one in a thousand users that support us financiallyif our library is useful to you, please pitch in. 14schools in Black and brown communities. We should be very careful not to conclude we can pull off a similar strike in the future. Official bargaining updates went out more frequently, and many individual bargaining team members sent individual updates to their sites, each of which kept more members in the loop on what was happening during bargaining. adversity and reached a tentative agreement for a strong two-year There are no reviews yet. jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201. But on Saturday night, the union and the district agreed on four of those proposals relating to housing and transportation, a community schools grant, a Black thriving community schools initiative, and school closures. Check out Bay Area safety tracker, Bay Area Life; Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on ABC7, ABC7 News Bay Area 24/7 streaming channel, Hopes remain high Oakland Unified will reach deal with teacher's union over weekend, CA Superintendent Tony Thurmond says progress being made in Oakland teachers' strike. PDF OUSD/CSEA They returned to work May 15 with a tentative agreement including 10 percent raises and more power in Community Schools. "They don't have the drive to keep going or pick up and keep going. They dismissed our offer and failed to provide a counter processand sacrificed countless hours away from our This was something many members (myself included) had been pushing for over the past few years, and something the 2021 Covid Safety Bargainingimplementedduring that round of bargaining. No listening to Taylor Swift outside Levi's Stadium. Nevertheless, I believe there are lessons to be learned when viewed from the eyes of an average rank and file member. for a presentation via Zoom for more information. PDF Agreement Between Oakland Unified School District RELATED: CA Superintendent Tony Thurmond says progress being made in Oakland teachers' strike. Officers: SEIU 1021 expresses full solidarity with Oakland Education Association Strike, Statement from SEIU 1021 President Theresa Rutherford, SEIU 1021 Congratulates Mike Hutchinson on Oakland Unified School District Board of Education Victory, SEIU 1021 stands with community members fighting to save Oakland schools, OUSD members of SEIU 1021 go to Sacramento to advocate for 2 critical education bills, AB 1912 and 1614 would protect schools from predatory loans and closures that disproportionately harm communities of color. would think that OUSD management would finally be ready to talk Your bargaining team and OUSD management made tremendous progress at the bargaining table this week, and we anticipate reaching a substantive deal in the coming days that will benefit our members, including: Several 1-time lump-sum compensations On-going salary increases Longevity pay increment increases Bilingual stipend increase plans to close or merge up to 19 schools over the next couple of IAs), Expanded access to dedicated private, secured space for AFLW players are cheering on change in looming landmark collective As you know, we are entering another season of contract negotiations with our teachers' union, OEA. Despite this agreement, there is still work to be done to get a signed deal to end the strike. The union says what remains are the details over three key areas: teacher salaries, special education programs and class size. Less than 24 hours later, however, some of those common good demands had been met. Email communications shall identify CSEA Chapter 67 as the subject heading of the communication and may This agreement covers Southwest's 2,870 Mechanics and Related Employees, which includes the Company's Aircraft Maintenance Technicians, Aircraft Inspectors, Maintenance Controllers, Training . Late Saturday night, the two sides announced they had agreed on four common good demands, many of which had placed the two sides in a gridlock throughout last week. UPS, Teamsters reach tentative agreement on new contract Oakland Education Association on Twitter: "BREAKING: OEA's Bargaining Such positions shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement. Southwest Airlines has ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with its mechanics, providing significant pay raises. According to Khattab, Sunday marked 20 days of work on the bargaining process. Another task force of educators, parents, students and staff will be formed to coordinate the actions of the program, and provide the wrap-around services and supports needed for Black students to thrive, according to the Oakland Education Association. In the months leading up to the seven-day strike of February 2019, I had little sense of who was on the team, or what was happening at the table, other than it was not going well. Its a fair point, even if I strongly disagree with it (more transparency provides more education and accountability, which ultimately provides more buy-in from the larger membership). Originally from Long Island, NY, he now lives in Oakland with his wife and two kids. ", If you're on the ABC7 News app, click here to watch live, Mega Millions jackpot grows to over $1 billion after no winners Friday, Swiftie guitarist captivates crowds at Levi's Stadium parking lot, No ticket? BREAKING: OEA's Bargaining Team of over 50 Oakland educators has reached a TA with OUSD. Oakland Unified School District Members, Community Protest School Closures in Black Communities, Come to the OUSD Board of Education Special Meeting Tues. 2/8 at 5pm to Speak Out, TOMORROW at 5pm: Speak Out Against School Closures at Special School Board Meeting, OUSD Chapter Bargaining Update: Making Progress; More Action Needed. seeing positive movement from OUSD management on important issues It was not clear Sunday afternoon how close the district and the union were to reaching an agreement on the remaining demands, particularly related to compensation boosts for staff across the school system. 9.200 9.120 9.130 Built-in software death dates are sending thousands of schools Chromebooks to the recycling bin Education | Before heading off on spring break, I even told some of my Seniors that they neednt worry about a strike happening this year. Mega Millions jackpot grows to over $1 billion after no winners Friday, Swiftie guitarist captivates crowds at Levi's Stadium parking lot, No ticket? We MUST show up and make sure they know we wont stand by "We just came to an agreement on our common good demands," said Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, the vice president of the OEA, who spoke to ABC7 News minutes after the agreement was signed. Education | An entire article could be written on how OUSD is a dysfunctional employer but suffice it to say that there were numerous instances throughout the entirety of the campaign, from the very beginning, right up until the very end, where OUSD was unprepared for negotiations and showed itself incapable of engaging in bargaining in a professional and efficient manner. If for some reason you arent ready, you pull something out of your bag of tricks in the thirty minutes before school (or during lunch) and more often than not, it works. On Thursday, the Oakland Education Association, community allies, and union They know the sticking points. Next academic year, there are expected to be five more full-time counselors across elementary and secondary schools in the district, and four more full-time librarians at the high schools, according to Khattab. District bargaining team has pushedthrough unprecedented The first is that relationships with families and communities are essential to our success, and the last-minute nature of the strike put stress on relationships that were already strained due to the pandemic. She said she had spent so much time at the union office that she could count the number of hours shed spent with her 9-year-old daughter on two hands. Employer We are pleased to report that OUSD/CSEA Collective Bargaining Agreement 2022-2025 - Article 6/Leaves Page 14 pregnancy disability leave, with pay, shall be granted and administered in the same manner as any other temporary disability for illness or injury. Members of SEIU 1021s Oakland Unified School District chapter members, parents, students, and community members came out Friday Under the ratified agreement, my pay next year will be 14% higher than this year. Once youre a bit of a veteran though, youre not really fazed by it. Nonetheless, that must be a priority as we move towards 2025. school closures, impending layoffs, the threat of a state forward. to forcefully and violently remove the protestors. 26,and OUSD management refused to bargain. Southwest Airlines Mechanics Approve Collective Bargaining Agreement SEIU 1021s endorsed candidate for Oakland Unified School Having the actual proposals available to read this round was a critically important step forward. Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, takeover, and economic inflationyour bargaining team has shined Melvin Phillips, Antonio Brooks, Trish Belenson, Leticia team has been hard at work since our last bargaining update. Teamsters and UPS reach tentative contract agreement to avoid a strike After seven days out of the classroom, teachers in Oakland said Sunday they were closer than ever to ending the strike impacting 34,000 students across the city though their union was still in negotiations with the Oakland Unified School District that afternoon. Eight of those members will be appointed by the Oakland Education Association and other teachers unions, and five would be appointed by Oakland Unified. Ronda Goldsby (SEIU 1021 Field Rep), Ben Fuchs, Esq. While we did not achieve that ambitious goal, the depth and breadth of representation on the bargaining team resulted in a bargaining process that was far more representative, and democratic, than the last few rounds of bargaining (Im thinking here not just of the 2019 contract, but also the various COVID bargaining MOUs of the past few years). Phyllis Copes, Donneva Reid, Gloria Broussard, Munera Mohsin, Education | We Ratified Our Tentative Agreement UNANIMOUSLY! It may be that going on strike in May was ultimately necessary. COVID is on the rise again in Florida, Taylor Swift concertgoers cause Swift quake with 2.3 magnitude, 800 great white sharks have visited Cape Cod in recent years: The Cape is among the larger white shark hotspots worldwide, $2M wedding nightmare in Aspen due to audio malfunction, lawsuit says, Ridiculous: So-called Snake Burglar admits to 54 felonies, walks out of jail, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Your bargaining team was committed to the negotiations District Social Worker Salary Schedules 12/2022. A fifty-member team, while not perfect (nothing ever is in collective bargaining), is far more likely to maintain an accurate read on the membership, and thereby not get too far ahead of members, nor capitulate too easily. Built-in software death dates are sending thousands of schools Chromebooks to the recycling bin "They have lost their momentum, and they lost their drive, that's very important, so you have kids going in a certain direction and then all of the sudden just stopped for seven days?" On behalf of our 60,000 members across Northern California, by refusing to bargain on COVID safety. contract with OUSD management. Despite this agreement, there is still work to be done to get a signed deal to end the strike. Members are voting on the agreement until Monday. Paradise superintendent says construction helps show towns rebound The end of year timing made everyone uneasy about the prospect of graduations being disrupted, or even the year ending with teachers on strike. The timing of the strike may have increased our leverage in certain respectsdisrupting graduation, AP testing, and other important end of the year activities and celebrations put pressure on the Districtbut when combined with the surprise nature of the strike, striking in May placed additional strain on educators relationships with families, and not solely to our advantage. voting on the school closures. off hardworking staff. school closures, impending layoffs, the threat of a state meeting will be next Tuesday, March 1, at 5pm. In addition to political education, we should continue to push foropen, public, and transparent bargainingwith the District. School bus driver who sold drugs to California students gets 3 years in prison, Built-in software death dates are sending thousands of schools Chromebooks to the recycling bin, Paradise superintendent says construction helps show towns rebound. Dear Patron: Please don't scroll past this. The Internet Archive is a nonprofit fighting for universal access to quality information, powered by online donations averaging about $17. School bus driver who sold drugs to California students gets 3 years in prison Our collective power forced OUSD to commit to living wages for educators, more resources in our schools, enforceable working conditions & common good issues for our students & their families. The LMER office collaborates with our labor partners in the development and negotiation of collectively bargained agreements. Oakland Education Association reaches deal with OUSD in contract Aside from this agreement, your bargaining team has also secured 0:05. The Office of Labor Management and Employee Relations (LMER) has some great things in store and we are hoping to provide you with additional resources, ongoing support, or whatever you should need. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! Before I knew it, a strike vote was held. 1.3 "District" means the Oakland Unified School District and the administrative staff under its direction. Finally, transparency around the specifics of the negotiations also improved. community members have been engaged in a nonviolent sit-in extra workload and stressors that COVID has brought, talk of VIDEO: OUSD superintendent details tentative agreement in teachers' strike, "Today we reached an agreement to raise our our compensation by 15% including a historic collapse of our salary structure," OEA President Ismael Armendariz said. The San Diego Union Tribune - California Surf Museum pays tribute to pioneering surf photographer, starts photo contest. SEIU 1021 staff and member leaders are working hard to Mass. Senate and House budgets far apart on collective bargaining What is indisputable is that we did not have the power to win our CG demands as part of our union contract. 6% of annual salary within 60 days of ratification; $1,500 for all employees of 0.5 FTE or greater/$850 for Although schools were open on Monday, it was an optional planning day for teachers, and students will be welcomed back for their first full day of instruction since the strike starting on Tuesday. OUSD Contract Negotiations with CSEA and OTA. Leadership Salary Schedules 7/2022. process and to our members when we have such immediate needs Our team partners with six (6) bargaining units representing approximately 86% of all District employees: AFSCME,American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, BCTC,Building and Construction Trades Council, SEIU,Service Employees International Union, UAOS,United Administrators Oakland Schools. All Rights Reserved. That means that once the OUSD Board of Education and Alameda learn more about whats happening in your worksite during this Comments (-1) more . Labor & Employee Relations / Collective Bargaining Agreements & Salary And despite being an alternate OEA rep at my school site this year, I did not attend a single rep council meeting. It helped members remain more informed and educated about what was happening at the table. Having worked on many bargaining campaigns during my time in labor, I was not perturbed by OUSDs proposals, even the more aggressive ones that contained clear nonstarters. A salary boost is in the near future for Corpus Christi police officers. Way to turn out in numbers at this past Mondays special OUSD The current agreement undoubtedly contains real improvements. With COVID surging once again in our schools and community, you the election committee by contacting Gary Jimenez via email After months of negotiations, strike threats and walkout talks, UPS and Teamsters, the union representing 340,000 UPS workers, have reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year . Along with the modest gains made on staffing4 new librarian positions, 2 new nurse positions, and 5 new counselor positions, all of which can be built upon in future roundsthe new agreement is one we as members can feel pretty good about. TOMORROW, Tues., Feb. 8, starting at 5pm, at which they will be When youve been around bargaining, you learn to brush those off and not get distracted by them. During the 2018-19 contract campaign, the OEA bargaining team consisted of five members. We need All Rights Reserved. PDF OUSD/CSEA Collective Bargaining Agreement 2016-2019 - Cloudinary PDF Project Labor Agreement for The Oakland Unified School District The tentative agreement still has to be voted on by OEA members.
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