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Tag: Contracts

  • 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…

  • Waiting for ‘We Can’t Wait’

    We Can’t Wait, an alliance of fourteen CA locals, is a great idea— but it’s not clear how much real life it has in it.  The East Bay districts that…

  • A Statewide Strike in 2025? Here’s How it Could Happen

    Picture this: educators from San Diego to San Jose, LA to Sacramento, all at once taking to the streets and withholding our labor, demanding the conditions and wages we’ve been…

  • We Can’t Wait Campaign off to a Rainy Start: Is the gloom just in the weather?

    The CTA-led “We Can’t Wait” campaign in the Bay Area got started with a rally in Oakland’s downtown Oscar Grant Plaza onTuesday, February 4. Near-constant and occasionally heavy rain had…

  • Report: Educator Upsurge Panel

    Alex Caputo-Pearl of UTLA made a lot of the 2025 contract alignment campaign. He linked it closely to Sean Fein’s call for a “general strike” in 2028. He framed the fight as…

  • 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…

  • CACS Campaign: “We Can’t Wait”

    Readers likely have not yet have heard of the “We Can’t Wait” campaign, or CACS, the organization whose campaign it is – but if all goes well, both will be…

  • #15 Settlements in Pleasanton, Dublin, Moraga— 

    A Cross-District Coalition Pleasanton Unified School District and the Association of Pleasanton Teachers reached a TA Monday, March 11, the Pleasanton Weekly reported. Teachers will get a total compensation increase…

  • #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…

  • #13 Interview: UESF Contract

    In October, the United Educators of San Francisco  ratified (86%) a new contract that includes a $9,000 across-the-board increase (plus other increases) for credentialed educators and a $30/hr. minimum for…

  • #11 Why Our Strike Accomplished So Little

    From the OEA Rank-and-File Caucus  5/18/23 Last month … we proposed some possible actions to maximize pressure on the District to win our contract demands, since Build Our Power (BOP)…

  • #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…

  • #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 Berkeley Settlement

    What do contract negotiations look like in your district? Here’s how we do things in Berkeley, the once-liberal town where the median home price is now $1.5 million. Before the…

  • #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…