CAUSE ADVISORY
School-Site Union Meetings – Week of Sept. 19th – Sept 23rd, 2022
* Dates, Times, Locations Announced *
[ TOPIC: Collective Bargaining – Compensation & Benefits ]
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Greetings, CUSD Employees and Families.
Attached, you will find a schedule of upcoming Union Site/Department meetings that will be held throughout next week; the week of Sept. 19th ( Mon.) – Sept. 23rd ( Fri.) , 2022. The topic remains the current 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle.
Please make every effort to attend your school-site’s meeting. If that is not possible, you may join us at another school-site’s meeting. Your accurate awareness and participation in the bargaining process is critical to Union Leadership’s ability to secure an agreement that supports the interest of teachers and support staff. This, in turn, supports our students and District families.
If you have any further questions about the current bargaining process, please review our initial ADVISORY, included below. Your continued patience and participation are appreciated . We look forward to seeing each of you next week.
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Towards progress,
~ j. Hotchner * CAUSE President
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* C.A.U.S.E. – Yes We Can ! *
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ORIGINAL ADVISORY (BELOW)
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Date: Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 1:02 PM
Subject: CAUSE ADVISORY: School-Site Union Meetings – To Be Held In Coming Week [TOPIC: Collective Bargaining * Compensation & Benefits *]
CAUSE ADVISORY
School-Site Union Meetings – To Be Held In Coming Week
TOPIC: Collective Bargaining
* Compensation & Benefits *
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Greetings, CUSD Employees and Families.
In the coming week, Union Leadership is working to hold Site-Meetings across the District to discuss where we are at with the current 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle. Please make every effort to attend your school site’s meeting. If that is not possible, you may join us at another school-site’s meeting.
Your accurate awareness and participation in the bargaining process is critical to Union Leadership’s ability to secure an agreement that supports the interest of teachers and support staff. This, in turn, supports our students and District families. Upcoming meeting dates and times will be announced shortly.
Background:
As is routine, the bargaining partners are yet to reach an agreement in the early months of the bargaining process. Due to the COVID pandemic (in the last two years) and the need to prioritize our response to the COVID mitigation efforts, contract bargaining has been severely abbreviated. As a result, several important contractual improvements have been set aside in the last few years.
The current 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle, is our first opportunity to return to the more traditional and routine approach to collective bargaining; one where the parties have every expectation to propose, discuss, and seek more comprehensive improvements to the variety of contract issues and challenges that have arisen during that period. Whereas our bargaining partner (CUSD) prefers to discuss only their very narrow interests, Union Leadership is unwilling to forfeit this opportunity pursue the improvements teachers and support staff have been seeking for a third straight year.
Continued Patience & Participation:
In the last few weeks, Union leadership has been receiving concerning reports from several district employees. As we’ve been advised, District leadership continues its campaign of misinformation, designed to once again abruptly end the collective bargaining process according to only their terms and interests. Had the District had its way, the partners would have resolved bargaining in the early Spring/late Summer 2022, with only a 1% salary increase and healthcare cuts and “claw-backs.” But Union leadership and our members wouldn’t have it, and we continued to bargain through the Summer months and into the current.
Now, we are hearing that District leadership is also characterizing Union leadership’s diligence and fidelity to employee concerns as “obstructionist”, going so far as to suggest that the “Union leadership is not interested in reaching an agreement on salary and benefits”. Fortunately, most of you already understand that District leadership’s attempts to misinform District employees and the community are simply absurd.
The Union’s patience and thorough approach to the 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle has already paid off. We have since secured a much more realistic, (albeit still short of what is possible) compensation offer from the CUSD (i.e. 5% with a 2% one-time bonus). That obvious progress, ensuring that District employees will see a several thousand dollar increase to their salaries and wages each year moving forward. And all the while, the District’s obligation to provide a fully covered high-quality healthcare option remains in force!
Rather than blindly accepting District leadership’s silly explanations for why the process has not been completed in the early months of the 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle, CAUSE leadership asks that you work with us to better understand the details. We need your accurate understanding, engagement, and participation to support the proposals we carry to the bargaining table.
Your opportunity to directly participate has arrived. It is time for our members to share their voices and perspectives with each other, District leadership, and the community. We will discuss this further at our upcoming site-meetings. In the meantime, we remind District employees; Union leadership can only accomplish what our members are willing to demand.
Full ahead !
~ j. Hotchner * CAUSE President
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* C.A.U.S.E. – Yes We Can ! *
[ TOPIC: Collective Bargaining – Compensation & Benefits ]
============================================
Greetings, CUSD Employees and Families.
Attached, you will find a schedule of upcoming Union Site/Department meetings that will be held throughout next week; the week of Sept. 19th ( Mon.) – Sept. 23rd ( Fri.) , 2022. The topic remains the current 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle.
Please make every effort to attend your school-site’s meeting. If that is not possible, you may join us at another school-site’s meeting. Your accurate awareness and participation in the bargaining process is critical to Union Leadership’s ability to secure an agreement that supports the interest of teachers and support staff. This, in turn, supports our students and District families.
If you have any further questions about the current bargaining process, please review our initial ADVISORY, included below. Your continued patience and participation are appreciated . We look forward to seeing each of you next week.
Towards progress,
~ j. Hotchner * CAUSE President
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* C.A.U.S.E. – Yes We Can ! *
Feel free to visit our CAUSE website:
https://cause2216.org/
Your feedback and interest are appreciated!
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a District Administrator, Board Member, or Union Member,
please contact us immediately. We will remove you from this email group-list. *
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ORIGINAL ADVISORY (BELOW)
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CAUSE ADVISORY
School-Site Union Meetings – To Be Held In Coming Week
TOPIC: Collective Bargaining
* Compensation & Benefits *
============================================
Greetings, CUSD Employees and Families.
In the coming week, Union Leadership is working to hold Site-Meetings across the District to discuss where we are at with the current 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle. Please make every effort to attend your school site’s meeting. If that is not possible, you may join us at another school-site’s meeting.
Your accurate awareness and participation in the bargaining process is critical to Union Leadership’s ability to secure an agreement that supports the interest of teachers and support staff. This, in turn, supports our students and District families. Upcoming meeting dates and times will be announced shortly.
Background:
As is routine, the bargaining partners are yet to reach an agreement in the early months of the bargaining process. Due to the COVID pandemic (in the last two years) and the need to prioritize our response to the COVID mitigation efforts, contract bargaining has been severely abbreviated. As a result, several important contractual improvements have been set aside in the last few years.
The current 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle, is our first opportunity to return to the more traditional and routine approach to collective bargaining; one where the parties have every expectation to propose, discuss, and seek more comprehensive improvements to the variety of contract issues and challenges that have arisen during that period. Whereas our bargaining partner (CUSD) prefers to discuss only their very narrow interests, Union Leadership is unwilling to forfeit this opportunity pursue the improvements teachers and support staff have been seeking for a third straight year.
Continued Patience & Participation:
In the last few weeks, Union leadership has been receiving concerning reports from several district employees. As we’ve been advised, District leadership continues its campaign of misinformation, designed to once again abruptly end the collective bargaining process according to only their terms and interests. Had the District had its way, the partners would have resolved bargaining in the early Spring/late Summer 2022, with only a 1% salary increase and healthcare cuts and “claw-backs.” But Union leadership and our members wouldn’t have it, and we continued to bargain through the Summer months and into the current.
Now, we are hearing that District leadership is also characterizing Union leadership’s diligence and fidelity to employee concerns as “obstructionist”, going so far as to suggest that the “Union leadership is not interested in reaching an agreement on salary and benefits”. Fortunately, most of you already understand that District leadership’s attempts to misinform District employees and the community are simply absurd.
The Union’s patience and thorough approach to the 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle has already paid off. We have since secured a much more realistic, (albeit still short of what is possible) compensation offer from the CUSD (i.e. 5% with a 2% one-time bonus). That obvious progress, ensuring that District employees will see a several thousand dollar increase to their salaries and wages each year moving forward. And all the while, the District’s obligation to provide a fully covered high-quality healthcare option remains in force!
Rather than blindly accepting District leadership’s silly explanations for why the process has not been completed in the early months of the 2022-23 collective bargaining cycle, CAUSE leadership asks that you work with us to better understand the details. We need your accurate understanding, engagement, and participation to support the proposals we carry to the bargaining table.
Your opportunity to directly participate has arrived. It is time for our members to share their voices and perspectives with each other, District leadership, and the community. We will discuss this further at our upcoming site-meetings. In the meantime, we remind District employees; Union leadership can only accomplish what our members are willing to demand.
Full ahead !
~ j. Hotchner * CAUSE President
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* C.A.U.S.E. – Yes We Can ! *
