August 26th Negotiations Session

We met today with district negotiators at the AHEM office. We responded to the District's last language proposal, had an extensive discussion about their "special skills" language that would undermine seniority rights, and got new language proposals from the district. The district's latest economic proposal restored our current health insurance benefits, but no movement on salaries or ABE/ECFE equity. We are concerned about the lack of movement over the past two months. We agreed to set additional meeting dates, but also told them that we will be filing for mediation*.

We'll keep you posted.

Your negotiators,

Paul, Sandy, Vicki, LeMoyne, David, Gary, and Julie

*Mediation is where a third party from the State Bureau of Mediation Services is assigned to work with the parties in reaching an agreement.

August 19th Negotiations Session

We met with the district negotiations team at our office today. It was the district's turn to bring forward a financial counter proposal. They did not, citing as their reason not having met with the school board since our previous session. The district team did bring several language items to which we are prepared to respond at our next session. In particular, they brought forward specific language that would subvert our seniority rights, despite the fact that we have been adamantly opposed to such language from the start.

So, it will still be the district's turn to bring forward a financial proposal at our next session on Wednesday, August 26th. We'll keep you posted.

Your negotiators,

Paul, Sandy, Vicki, LeMoyne, David, Gary, and Julie

August 11th Negotiations Session

We met with the district negotiation's team today at our office. We made a new economic offer and they responded to our last language proposal briefly but had no other comments. All together the meeting took 20 minutes. We were surprised at the lack of comment or discussion from the district on both items.

Watch your home mail this coming week for a detailed negotiations update - we'll include specifics on our progress and rationale for our offers. Our next meeting is August 19th and we hope for a more productive session.


-We'll keep you posted - your negotiators,

Paul, Sandy, Vicki, LeMoyne, David, Gary, and Julie