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Category: Mount Diablo

  • Mount Diablo USD: Contract Round Begins– Rally at Board Meeting 12/14

    The one year deal signed earlier this year secured a 9% pay hike for all MDEA members. MDEA members in a previous contract fight won 100% health care for members…


  • #14 MDEA Contract Settlement: 9% raise and 100% of Kaiser 

    On November 17th of last year, MDEA (Mt Diablo Educators Association) members ratified a one year contract with MDUSD that codifies real benefit and wage gains for District educators.  Of…


  • #7 To Zoom Or Not to Zoom?

    In our last issue we ran comments by educators from Oakland and Berkeley criticizing union meetings on Zoom. We received several local reports and a comment in favor of continuing …


  • #6 Building Parent Ties at Oak Grove

    Many educators recognize a need to (re)build community after the past couple years. We interviewed teacher Aaron Hackett, a MDEA (Mt Diablo Educators Association) site rep, one of the founders…


  • #4 Mt. Diablo Settlement

    I thought I’d be writing a piece about the impending strike in Mt Diablo Unified, where I’ve taught middle school for 17 years. By early March, MDUSD and MDEA, the…


  • #3 Mount Diablo Impasse

    On December 10, 2021 MDEA, the MDUSD educators union, declared an impasse. This is due to the constant refusal of the district to recognize that changes must be made in…


  • #2 Support Mount Diablo Educators

    On June 31st contracts expired in five of the largest East Bay school districts–Oakland, Berkeley, New Haven, West Contra Costa County, and Mt Diablo.  In four of them the locals…