ACT Bargaining Team
October 24-The district continues to make proposals that are disrespectful and do not value our time and work as professionals by essentially asking us to work for free after school and attach strings in order to get a decent raise. The district is clearly not well-educated as…
A June 2024 EdWeek article entitled Teachers Report Lower Pay, More Stress Than Workers in Other Fields it states that “Teachers reported working an average of 53 hours per week, compared to 43 hours of weekly work reported by comparable workers. And teachers were significantly less likely to say they were satisfied with their pay and workload than other comparable workers.”
This includes:
Thank you for your support!
The District has the ability to honor all of our bargaining requests. To do so they need to shift their priorities.
If you would like to express your thoughts about what the school district is doing that negatively affects the children in CUSD write to:
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A June 2024 EdWeek article entitled Teachers Report Lower Pay, More Stress Than Workers in Other Fields it states that “Teachers reported working an average of 53 hours per week, compared to 43 hours of weekly work reported by comparable workers. And teachers were significantly less likely to say they were satisfied with their pay and workload than other comparable workers.”
- On average, teachers earned 73.4 cents for every dollar relative to the earnings of similar other professionals in 2023. This is much less than the 93.9 cents on the dollar they made in 1996. This is an all-time high according to the Economic Policy Institute report.
- Research shows that teachers “wouldn’t want their own children to enter the profession.”
- “Low pay is the No. 1 reason high school students don’t consider teaching” according to the Southern Regional Policy Board.
- According to a list provided to us by the district in September 2024, 55 out of 184 (30%) of our educators were hired in the last two school years. As pointed out by the Learning Policy Institute, “High teacher turnover undermines student achievement, and replacing teachers consumes valuable staff time and resources.
This includes:
- commitment to continue to provide a quality education to all of our students
- grading assignments
- communicating concerns with parents and guardians
Thank you for your support!
The District has the ability to honor all of our bargaining requests. To do so they need to shift their priorities.
If you would like to express your thoughts about what the school district is doing that negatively affects the children in CUSD write to:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Click here for Previous Bargaining Updates
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*At minute 16, slide 13, there is an error, it has been fixed/updated at the financial information link below.*
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*Report prepared by the California Teachers Association using figures CUSD sent to the state*
Please know that at least one board member has commented that our numbers are wrong. We are using the numbers the district provided to the state and the Deputy Supt. has stated that our numbers are correct.
Click Here for A Summary of Why ACT is Still at the Bargaining Table
Click here for aCT's Response to the CUSD BOard report presented on September 12, 2024
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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