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Category: Richmond and West CC

  • UTR Acts as Agents of the District

    While presenting a façade of opposition to the West Contra Costa Unified School District (hereon referred to as “WCCUSD” or “the district”), at key points, the United Teachers of Richmond…

  • Judge Rejects 45 Williams Complaints

    Approves year-long subs because teachers “don’t want to teach in Richmond” Judge Terry Mockler dismissed all 45 Williams complaints against the West Contra Costa Unified regarding both unsafe conditions and…

  • #14 Unfair Election in UTR

    The ruling “Organizing for Justice” faction in UTR cleaned house during the last executive board election. Myself and also several others who acted independently/assertively to some extent are now gone.…

  • #13 Rep Council and Zoom: A reply

    I appreciated the Solidarity News #12 editorial from an OEA member and have this to say as a United Teachers of Richmond (UTR) member. Yes, it’s depressing to have Zoom…

  • #13 Adult School Teachers United wins at PERB ruling

    On November 6, 2023, the Public Employment Relations Board ordered West Contra Costa Unified School District to give English as a Second Language teachers at its Adult School back pay…

  • #12 Community Schools Implementation in WCCUSD

    The United Teachers of Richmond, in collaboration with the West Contra Costa School District,  has developed extensive contract language for community schools. Article 53 states, “Community schools provide not only…

  • #11 Opinions on Community Schools: Push for National Health Care

    What worries me are the mental health services and other health services the community schools will supposedly offer. We know that health care is lacking for working people in this…

  • #11 Questions about Community Schools (Article 52) in the new UTR contract

    How will the district level Community Schools Support Collaborative be chosen? What will be the composition of the Systems Change Collaborative? How will each Community School choose an Action Collaborative,…

  • #11 Five Years Fighting for a Contract

    In WCCUSD,  Adult School Teachers United (ASTU) remains locked in a battle for its very survival.  Recognized by PERB in 2017, in the early years of negotiations for a first-ever…

  • #10 Community Schools: UTR Puts It In The Contract

    The state of California has made available millions of dollars for Community Schools. The California Teachers Association (CTA) and the National Education Association (NEA) have been promoting Community Schools. My…

  • #9 United Teachers of Richmond (UTR) and WCCUSD Headed for a Strike?

    The first California Teacher Strike was in Richmond in 1965. There have been no strikes in what is now WCCUSD since. After 10 months and 19 days of negotiations for…

  • #8 WCCUSD Declares Impasse How will UTR Respond?

    “Give Union Members a Fair Contract, or they will take action.” UTR President, John Zabala, said  this at the most recent WCCUSD School Board meeting. Union members at the meeting…

  • #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 Unequal Funding:

                A Tale of Two Schools California is #32 among the 50 states in per pupil expenditures— but the reality is worse than that. Teacher…

  • #5 Whither CACS?

    Five years ago, when I first heard about C.A.C.S, California Alliance for Community Schools, I was very excited. The brainchild of three California Teachers Association (C.T.A) union presidents, it was…