ACT Bargaining Team
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Bargaining UPDATEs
The district has the ability to honor all of our bargaining requests. To do so they need to Shift their priorities.
Next Bargaining Date is Tuesday, April 30th 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
April 12th Bargaining Update:
1) Budget discussion with the District
2) CUSD was supposed to make counter proposals from our last meeting, but they said they were reverting to their initial proposals
3) After the budget discussion, ACT made a variety of concessions in counter proposals to CUSD, including
-Class Size
-Better Health Benefits for Families and Employee Plus One
-Health Care Proration for Part Time Employees
-Early Retirement Health Benefits
-Increase Frequency of Sabbaticals
4) CUSD stuck to their initial proposals with no movement
5) ACT’s initial Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) proposal was 11% (based upon state average data). CUSD’s initial proposal was 0.76%. ACT countered with 10% and CUSD stuck with 0.76%.
6) The calendar for 2024-2025 was agreed upon.
March 26th Bargaining Update:
1) Financial presentation by Donnie Salamanca
March 18th update from the bargaining table:
1) ACT presented all sunshine articles (list below)
2) District proposed changes to articles 17, 20, 23 (pulled back on two other articles 15, 18)
April 12th Bargaining Update:
1) Budget discussion with the District
2) CUSD was supposed to make counter proposals from our last meeting, but they said they were reverting to their initial proposals
3) After the budget discussion, ACT made a variety of concessions in counter proposals to CUSD, including
-Class Size
-Better Health Benefits for Families and Employee Plus One
-Health Care Proration for Part Time Employees
-Early Retirement Health Benefits
-Increase Frequency of Sabbaticals
4) CUSD stuck to their initial proposals with no movement
5) ACT’s initial Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) proposal was 11% (based upon state average data). CUSD’s initial proposal was 0.76%. ACT countered with 10% and CUSD stuck with 0.76%.
6) The calendar for 2024-2025 was agreed upon.
March 26th Bargaining Update:
1) Financial presentation by Donnie Salamanca
March 18th update from the bargaining table:
1) ACT presented all sunshine articles (list below)
2) District proposed changes to articles 17, 20, 23 (pulled back on two other articles 15, 18)
Sunshined Articles
In keeping with this mission, the Association is opening the following articles of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for negotiations in order to attract and retain the best educators for our students and to enhance, clarify, and add to the language:
- Article 3 Definitions
- Article 6 Non-Discrimination
- Article 10 Grievance Procedure
- Article 15 Unit Member Hours and Adjunct Duties
- Article 16 Safety Conditions of Employment
- Article 17 Leaves
- Article 18 Health and Welfare
- Article 19 Salary
- Article 20 Class Size
- Article 23 Calendar
- Appendix A Extended Day
- Article 10 Grievance Procedure
- Article 13 Transfer and Reassignment
- Article 14 Evaluation Procedure
- Article 15 Unit Member Hours and Adjunct Duties
- Article 16 Safety Conditions of Employment
- Article 17 Leaves
- Article 18 Health and Welfare
- Article 19 Salary
- Article 21 California and Federal Law Regarding Special Education
- Article 22 Just Cause Discipline
- Article 21 California and Federal Law Regarding Special Education
- Article 21 MOU
Trying to get to the table
Previous Updates:
- 02/29/24 On February 28, ACT, once again, ask the district to provide possible bargaining dates as they have yet to receive any since the district proposal of March 8, which would not work for our CTA staffer.
- 02/22/24 The district has cancelled our bargaining session on March 5th. They offered March 8th but our staff person is not available that day. We have asked the district to send multiple dates to us that they are available. More as we know it.
- Out of three days we proposed to the district, the district agreed to 1/2 day PM on March 5th.
- We now have been told that the district may have to reschedule the March 5th meeting.
- They say they will propose more dates, but have yet to do so.
- After multiple requests, we now have been notified who is on the district bargaining team: Donnie Salamanca, Brooke Falar, Megan Battle, Angelica Paredes, Jordan Bilbeisi, the District’s attorney, and Donna Tripi.
- As a reminder, each side proposed multiple articles to discuss