Negotiations

MOU Nov 3 2010 News from the Table 11/3/2010 ————————————————————————————————————————- Today’s intended agenda was temporarily suspended to resolve the District’s misapplication of the Memorandum of Understanding concerning the District-wide professional development day of November 12, 2010.  As a result, BTA’s original intent of making this a voluntary workday and utilizing it for specific site-based teacher directed work was reaffirmed.  Unit members [...]

BTA-BUSD MOU 10.21.10 Please click on the link to view the entire Memorandum of Understanding.

News From the Table 10/19/2010 The BTA Negotiations Team met with the district to resolve the question of restoring the remaining instructional/staff development days.  In the initial district proposal, the district offered only three days to be restored.  BTA told the district that this offer was unacceptable and countered with a proposal that included the [...]

News from the table BTA presented a proposal to the District to restore the 4 staff development/instructional days.  There was also discussion of switching the instructional day of November 12, 2010 to a staff development day and the staff development day of January 31, 2011 to an instructional day. BTA also proposed a temporary one [...]

As I am certain you are all aware, there is trouble afoot. The district budget has a two million dollar problem, and we are trying to work things out. The Board of Education has appointed a new negotiations team, in Dr. Aponik’s absence, of Nancy Gasisch (Director of Personnel), Greg Bowman (Deputy Superintendent), and Ali [...]

This month our discussions have focused around two issues: benefits and summer school. We have signed a Side Letter of Agreement allowing for flexibility in summer school scheduling this year. The day will be lengthened and the week shortened resulting in the same number of hours (90 for elementary, and 135 for secondary) and a [...]

Negotiations have started on the 2002-2003 contract. This is a limited re-opener year, which means that the District and the Association can agree to open as many articles as needed, but each side can only open one article on their own. The District has selected Class Size, and the Association has selected Hours. This was [...]

This month there is not a lot to say about negotiations. Last month I reported that we thought we had identified a funding source for planning time; unfortunately, it is not so. We have spent a great deal of time and effort on this contract, and I am certain that it will not surprise you [...]

This month at the table we finished our work on Article 14: Transfer and Reassignment and moved on to the subject we’ve all been waiting for – money. As always, we are interested in securing the best salary and benefits available for our members. This year there are some differences to keep in mind. The [...]