Bargaining Unit 3 Recap: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Bargaining Unit 3 Recap: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Our Unit 3 bargaining team has experienced six frustrating weeks where its intention to work collaboratively to advance the interests of our represented employees has been frustrating. We’ve made a number of proposals and had numerous discussions with little progress...
Bargaining Unit 3 Recap: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Bargaining Unit 21 Recap: Monday, June 12, 2023

Today’s Unit 21 bargaining session showed greater engagement by State negotiators, and we made some positive steps with six tentative agreements reached today. There was troubling news: The State attacked us with counter proposals on three contract sections that...
Bargaining Unit 3 Recap: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Master Table Bargaining Summary: June 7, 2023

At today’s Master Table bargaining session, the State’s negotiators showed signs of life and offered some responses to Local 1000 proposals, including some we presented nearly a month ago. Four of our economic proposals were rejected. Our demands for a 30% pay raise,...
Bargaining Unit 3 Recap: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Bargaining Unit 3 Recap: Tuesday, June 6, 2023

We’re reporting some good progress today at the Unit 3 bargaining table. Our Professional Educators and Librarians will benefit from the agreements we reached today, and we hope to continue those advances with some new proposals. “In every case, we’re focused on the...
Bargaining Unit 3 Recap: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Bargaining Unit 1 Recap: Tuesday, June 6, 2023

One of the goals of the Unit 1 bargaining team is to improve and protect working conditions, contained in those contract sections that govern how and where we do our work. Those hard-earned rights are often as important as economic issues. Today, we continued our...
Bargaining Unit 3 Recap: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Bargaining Unit 21 Recap: Monday, June 5, 2023

With less than a month before our contract expires, our bargaining team forges ahead while facing growing concerns about a backlog of unanswered proposals that address key priorities of the Unit 21 members we represent. And it’s frustrating our team. “The State’s...