Today our Bargaining Unit 3 team - representing Professional Educators and Librarians - spent today bargaining with the state and signed several tentative agreements. In an exciting step forward, the team reached agreement on a contract provision that would require all five departments in which Unit 3 members work, to offer training for employees at risk of assault. The training focuses on defusing potentially violent situations our teachers may face, whether from agitated students or members of the public.
"Many of our teachers work in institutional settings," said Collette Gau-Cunningham, Unit 3 team member, "But others, like our orientation and mobility specialists, take trainees into urban areas and never know what hazards they will face in that environment."