Teachers union, district hit another wall

12-10-2009

Blog by Katy Murphy/Oakland Tribune

In their final offer to the union’s bargaining team — which was rejected and called “unconscionable” by the union – district administrators offered teachers an unchanged salary schedule (no cuts, no increases) and said they wouldn’t cut elementary school teachers’ prep periods, according to union President Betty Olson-Jones. Both sides say they want to avoid a strike, but they can’t even seem to agree on whether mediation has ended or whether they can discuss what I just wrote about. The news release I received from OEA said the contract dispute was certified for the next phase after mediation, known as fact-finding. But an e-mail I got this evening from Troy Christmas, the director of labor relations for the district, said “This is simply not true” (with “not true” underlined for emphasis). (more...)

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