From Your

EMUEA Negotiations

Team…

FIRST MEETING FOR 2014-2015

Negotiations opened May 13, 2014 at the Union office.  The District reviewed their financial situation and their projected $6 million budget surplus.  The CBO told us that the current cost of a district-wide all-employee 1% raise is about  $511,000.00.  

The District proposed an Intervention/Tutoring/Supervision during an extended lunch—which would add 30 minutes to our day and shorten teacher lunch to 30 minutes.  The particulars of the tutoring curriculum are vague at this point.

The  District proposed requiring all certificated non-teaching staff to support and promote college, career and parent involvement events for five (5) evenings during the year.

The District proposed adding 5% on the salary schedule.

The District proposed making the instructional minutes and preparation time at all five comprehensive high schools consistent.

In addition to discussing each of these proposals in order to understand the way the District team is thinking, the Association reviewed with the District team the salaries currently being offered at other districts and the length of time since the last cost of living adjustment (2007-2008).

Your Association is currently formulating a counter-proposal.

NO STRIKE/NO LOCKOUT

Here is an answer to a question many of you have asked:  after June 30, 2014, we are working without a contract.  Until we finalize a 2014-2015 contract, striking is back on the table.  Once we finalize the contract, the “No Strike” Article is back in force.  

US INFLATION—BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

BTW… If in 2007 you purchased an item for $20.00, then in 2014 that same item would cost $22.79—a cumulative inflation rate of 14%.  (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl)