2012 UESF/SFUSD Negotiations |
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97% of UESF Members Vote Yes in First Strike VoteFirst Strike Vote at UESF Membership Meeting on May 10th!
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How much will 18 furlough days & the elimination of 3 PD days cost you:
Table Talk:• April 10, 2012 - SFUSD Proposes Massive Cuts to Early Education • March 20, 2012 - UESF Bargaining Team Proposes 2% Raise • February 25, 2012 - District Demands Balloon to $35.6 Million • February 17, 2012 - SFUSD Plays the Old Numbers Game Again • January 30, 2012 - Contract Negotiations Open with SFUSD Links:Media:• SF schools prepare for the worst as new state budget battle looms (SF Examiner 1/10/12) • Union draws lines in San Franicsco teacher contract talks (SF Examiner: 1/25/12) • Jerry Brown's tax plan gets strong voter support (SF Chron: 1/25/12)
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UESF members from Burton High School wearing their union blue to support the Bargaining Team.What you can do today:
1 Attend the UESF Membership Meeting on
May 10th @ 4:00 p.m. @ Lincoln HS.
2. SIGN & share the online petition demanding the SFUSD do the right thing!
2. Distribute the parent leaflet at your school site - English - Spanish - Chinese
SFUSD Proposal - By the Numbers...
SFUSD Declares Impasse - Moves One Step Closer to Imposing Contract
May 3, 2012
Strong turnout at the May 10th General Membership Meeting will send the message to SFUSD to get back to the table and settle a fair contract
At the end of negotiations today, representatives for the SFUSD declared impasse at the bargaining table. The move means the SFUSD is one step closer to imposing the contract on UESF members, including 18 furlough days over the next two years and cuts in Professional Development that would mean thousands of dollars in sacrifices from each and every one of us. (Click here to see how hard you will be hit if they succeed.)
The premature declaration of impasse is another example of the cavalier approach the district has taken to the negotiating process. In addition to the enormous cuts they seek, they have also proposed massive changes in our contracts ranging from gutting Special Education, to increasing K-3 class size, eliminating AP and Department Head Preps, to eliminating 27 days from Early Education, and more.
Often at the table, district representatives have had difficulty answering even simple questions about these proposals. The district has also called impasse before UESF has even had the opportunity to fully explore and respond to them.
Declaring impasse before even allowing the process to work is an insult to the men and women who do the work every day in the classroom. It's not negotiating, it's bullying, and it's meant to intimidate us into accepting a contract that would not only cost us dearly, but would permanently eliminate many of our rights and benefits. And it would be disastrous for the quality of education our students would receive should the district prevail.
The best way to stop the district from following this terrible path they have set is to stand as one and demand that they return to the table and settle a fair contract.
Please make every effort to attend our May 10th General Membership Meeting at Lincoln High School. Enough is Enough! RSVP online.
Enough is Enough!
Join the Campaign for a Fair Contract and to Stop the Layoffs
April 17, 2012
In response to the outrageous concessions sought at the bargaining table by the SFUSD and the hundreds of arbitrary and unnecessary layoff notices sent by the district, last week UESF launched our Enough is Enough! organizing campaign.
The campaign centers around two basic goals: To get the SFUSD to rescind every layoff notice sent out this school year, and to stop the district from pushing through radical changes to the contract and $36 million in concessions despite having over $80 million in reserves and unexpected revenue to spend.
To start the campaign, we have delivered pledge cards to Building Representatives and Union Building Committees to distribute in schools across the district. The pledge cards include several actions that you can take part in to help ramp up pressure on the SFUSD to do the right thing.
Please sign this card and return it to your Building Rep or a UBC member as soon as you can. You can also fill out the online pledge card (no closed).
Please also take a moment to sign the online petition to Superintendent Garcia, Deputy Superintendent Carranza, and the members of the Board of Education today. The petition simply asks the leaders of the school district to spend the ample resources they have to rescind the layoffs and stop the furlough days and cuts. Please forward this petition to your friends, family, and neighbors.
Copies of a leaflet to distribute to parents before and after school will be available at the UESF Assembly meeting on Wednesday, April 18th at Ida B. Wells High School (1099 Hayes St.). The leaflet will be translated into Spanish and Chinese by the end of the week. More pledge cards will also be available at the meeting.
Next up is a rally at the Board of Education on April 24th. The rally at 555 Franklin St. will last from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Thanks for your efforts. Standing together we can stop the layoffs, protect our contract, and defend our classrooms and our students from these unnecessary attacks.
SFUSD Proposes Massive Cuts to Early Education
April 10, 2012
In our April 10th Table Talk:
• SFUSD proposes shortening Early Education school year from 218 to 191 days.
• Proposed change would cost Early Education teachers as much as $4,300.
• Move could be disaster for paras working in Early Education.
• District seeks to force Early Education teachers to administer oral medications.
Table Talk - UESF Bargaining Team Proposes 2% Raise
March 20, 2012
In our March 20th Table Talk:
• UESF team proposes 2% raise and re-openers on compensation if a November tax initiative passes.
• SFUSD proposed changes to Special Education include higher class sizes, reduction of teacher rights, and removal of UESF appointed member of key committee.
• District seeks to reduce ten-day window on job postings to three days, and diminish substitutes’ pay.
• UESF team proposes training on restorative justice, seeks alternatives to suspensions.
Table Talk - District Demands Balloon to $35.6 Million
February 25, 2012
In our February 25th Table Talk:
• Administrators from SFUSD increased their demands from $30 million to $35.6 million.
•In addition to 10 furlough days, move would permanently eliminate AP Preps, Department Head Preps, CORE Subs, & Sabbaticals
• District proposal would mean permanent $5.2 million in yearly cuts.
Table Talk - SFUSD Plays the Old Numbers Game Again
February 17, 2012
In our February 17th Table Talk:
• SFUSD proposed $30 million in cuts, despite having a $55 million ending balance.
• SFUSD greatly underestimated its ending balance last year to the tune of $26.8 million
• District sheepishly asks the UESF bargaining team to do their dirty work.
• UESF team proposes adequate supplies for schools.
UESF Video: Meet the UESF Bargaining Team
January 30, 2012
Table Talk - Contract Negotiations Open with SFUSD
January 30, 2012
In our first Table Talk:
• Introduction of the UESF Bargaining Team to the Board of Education
• Organization and Scheduling of Bargaining
• Review of Opening Positions
• Invite to February 8th Overview of Negotiations Process (see below)
February 8th - Union Skills Workshop: Negotiations 101
Wednesday, February 8th – 4-6 p.m.
Ida B. Wells High School (1099 Hayes St.)
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All UESF members who are interested in learning more about the ins-and-outs of negotiations should make sure to attend the next Union Skills Workshop on February 8th. The training will not only demystify the negotiations process, but will help explain why support and activism at the school sites is so important to success at the bargaining table.
Topics include:
• What does a day of bargaining look like?
• Who are the people at the table, on both sides?
• What are the different roles of the people at the table, especially rank-and-file UESF members?
• How does UESF conduct business at the bargaining table?
• What are the rules and laws governing negotiations?
• How and when does the Bargaining Team share information with the membership?
• An overview of UESF and SFUSD's opening sunshine proposals.
PLEASE RSVP to Meg Kimura at 956-8373 or mkimura@uesf.org. Parking available: enter from Pierce St.
UESF T-Shirt Day For Opening of Contract Talks - January 25th
January 18, 2012
UESF and the SFUSD will sit down to begin negotiations for new contracts for teachers and paras on Wednesday, January 25th. To help support the UESF Bargaining Team, all school sites are encouraged to wear their UESF t-shirts on that day.
This year's negotiations may indeed be contentious. On January 10th, the SFUSD presented their sunshine proposals, which include the possibility that they might ask for more furlough days, the end of sabbaticals, and for freezing the salary schedule, among other days.
Following the feedback from the membership, UESF's Bargaining Team has proposed re-opening sections of the contract that would allow for cost of living and other wage increases, increases in the SFUSD paid portion of health care coverage, limits on class size, strengthened professional development, and more.
Sunshine proposals cover the areas of the contract that each side wishes to discuss in negotiations. They are not formal proposals. Those will come in subsequent sessions.
Look for continued updates on this web page.
