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Letter from GPA Leadership in response to November Bargaining
Key points:
Letter from GPA Leadership, in response to Bargaining and attempts by SDEA to block the NAACP award and other SDEA lies
Letter from GPA Leadership about what articles have been proposed and countered
The table below shows the contract “articles” that have been proposed by GPA so far in this process. It is important to note that the original demands, made by teachers in November 2018, included 7 targeted areas; which has now become 17 articles SDEA is proposing upon GPA. Although the list has more than doubled since teachers unionized with SDEA/CTA, those bargaining on behalf of GPA are committed to writing proposals that meet the unique needs of our students.
The table to the left shows the contract “articles” that have been proposed by GPA so far in this process. It is important to note that the original demands, made by teachers in November 2018, included 7 targeted areas; which has now become 17 articles SDEA is proposing upon GPA. Although the list has more than doubled since teachers unionized with SDEA/CTA, those bargaining on behalf of GPA are committed to writing proposals that meet the unique needs of our students.
GPA offered additional hours (on top of the hours already scheduled) of bargaining time during the already-busy months of November and December. SDEA was still dissatisfied and reminded GPA that GPA we did not find more time to meet with them, the SDEA bargaining team members could request to use valuable teaching time to bargain instead of teaching students.
SDEA:
The SDEA proposals and counter-proposals:
Article 2: Negotiation Procedures(Tentative Agreement),
Article 6: Discipline and Dismissal ( a package with other articles) and Evaluation,
Article 7: Employment Status,
Article 9: Hours,
Article 10: Wages,
Article 14: Class Size.
Edits in the counter-proposals are marked in red.
GPA:
The Gompers Preparatory Academy Bargaining Team delivered the following proposals and counter-proposals:
Article 13: Evaluations,
Article 11: Health,
Article 15: Safety.
Edits in the counter-proposals are marked in red
SDEA:
The SDEA proposals and counter-proposals:
Article 4: Organizational Security (Jan 28)
Article 16: Assignability (TA Signed Jan 28)
Article 16: Assignability(TA),
Article 5: Grievance Procedures,
Article 12: Leaves,
Article 3: Association Rights.
Edits in the counter-proposals are marked in red.
GPA:
The Gompers Preparatory Academy Bargaining Team delivered the following proposals and counter-proposals:
Article 14: Section Size.
Article 13: Evaluation (Jan 28),
Article 1: Recognition (Jan 28),
Article 3: Association Rights (Jan 28)
Edits in the counter-proposals are marked in red.
MOU:
SDEA - Intern Salary
SDEA:
The SDEA proposals and counter-proposals:
Article 13: Evaluation
Article 3: Association Rights. (TA Signed)
Edits in the counter-proposals are marked in red.
GPA:
The Gompers Preparatory Academy Bargaining Team delivered the following proposals and counter-proposals:
Article 7: Employment Status,
Article 9: Hours of Employment,
Article 10: Wages.
Edits in the counter-proposals are marked in red.
SDEA:
The SDEA proposals and counter-proposals:
Article 8: Layoff
GPA:
The Gompers Preparatory Academy Bargaining Team delivered the following proposals and counter-proposals:
Article 12: Leaves,
Article 13: Evaluation.
MOU
GPA - Six Period Day
SDEA Proposed
GPA Proposed
Association Rights. (TA Signed)
SDEA - Association Rights (Jan)
GPA - Association Rights (Jan)
Past:
SDEA Counter
GPA - Evaluation (March)
SDEA - Evaluation (Feb)
GPA- Evaluation (Jan)
SDEA- Evaluation (Dec)
GPA- Evaluations (Dec)
Past:
SDEA Proposed
GPA Counter
SDEA Proposed
GPA - Safety (Dec)
Assignability (TA Signed Jan 28)
Assignability(Jan TA )
Past:
SDEA Proposed
GPA Counter
SDEA Proposed
GPA Counter
Bargaining---------
The truth about collective bargaining:
The union, not the teachers and other employees, decides what to propose in negotiations;
The parties must negotiate in good faith, but there is no time limit on how long it may take to reach agreement, and no requirement that an agreement actually be reached;
The union may have made many promises (for instance, tenure), but it cannot guarantee any of them will come true.
SDEA Dues: $1,120 per year ($112 a month for 10 months) , each unit member must pay, unless you opt-out. Also noted "Unit members that choose to become a member will have the opportunity to vote on whether or not the contract is ratified." This means if you do not pay SDEA Dues, you will NOT get to vote on the SDEA contract with GPA. According to the Unions April 26, 2019, Newsletter. You can, however, Vote NO to the SDEA representing you, and you do not need to be a due payer to do that.
Recently proposed during the bargaining session, Teacher Salary Scale submitted by the UNION, is for 205 days. This means, because of the UNION one size fits all mentality, all teachers will be REQUIRED to work 205 days, no summers off. The teachers that were told they would get their summers off, they were lied to by the GTA. Because of the UNION, we lost all flexibility in our work year agreements, and our individual rights to negotiate summers off. You can, however, Vote NO to the SDEA representing you, and you do not need to be a due payer to do that. Get your individual rights back!
****Also noted in the proposed Teacher Salary Scale: 1st-year teacher could potentially make more than a 6-year teacher who has been with Gompers Preparatory Academy based solely on educational units. You read that correctly, a teacher that has been with GPA for 6 years could make less than a 1st-year teacher. San Diego Education Association is not what teachers want at Gompers Preparatory Academy! SDEA Opt Out Today or VOTE the SDEA Out!
Risks of Negotiations There is no guarantee a union will obtain higher pay or better benefits. In fact, the union cannot guarantee negotiations will not result in a reduction of wages or benefits.
The union’s collective bargaining with Gompers Preparatory Academy puts each of us in a position where we are individualy unable to ask for extra income for stellar work.
SDEA/CTA/NEA value seniority over effectiveness. Thus, as long as the union is negotiating salary schedules on behalf of every teacher at Gompers Preparatory Academy, everyone with the same education and experience will earn the exact same salary. Without the SDEA/CTA/NEA, you could actually negotiate your own salary and could receive performance-based raises or bonuses.
Wingspan
Update: The SDEA all-or-nothing tactics seems arrogant and unreasonable especially when GPA is doing all they can to respond and create a un...
Wingspan
Collective bargaining is one of the cornerstones of the National Labor Relations Act.
Simply put, collective bargaining—also called negotiations—is the process where an employer bargains with a union (or other representative) over “wages, hours of work, and other terms and conditions of employement.”
As written, the National Labor Relations Act Section 8(d) explains collective bargaining as the…
What this means is that, under the law, employers and unions have to bargain and neither party can refuse to bargain.
However, it also means that they do not have to agree.
There is also no time limit to negotiations.
Often, negotiations takes months and, sometimes, even years to reach an agreement–if the parties can agree.
Going to work at an already-unionized employer is much different than unionizing a company for the first time and attempting to reach a first-time agreement.
Initial, or first-time negotiations often take much longer than , as the entire employment relationship is negotiated, it often takes much longer than negotiations
In fact, for newly unionized workers, studies have shown that unions fail to reach to reach agreements nearly 50% of the time.
Despite this abysmal track record, unions still sell thousands of workers on the idea of unionizing.
In the end, though, everything workers have (i.e., wages, benefits, and other conditions of employment) gets bargained over.
As a result, workers can end up with more than they currently, or may end up with less.
(Source: Truth About Unions)
ANSWER: Yes.
Very often, people believe that they cannot lose things (i.e., wages, benefits, or other things) if they are unionized.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Collective bargaining (or negotiations) is a two-way street and, as importantly, it is about leverage.
Both the National Labor Relations Board, as well as the federal courts, have recognized that employees can win, as well as lose as a result of collective bargaining.
A union’s only power is to ask the employer for something.
If the employer says “no,” the union’s leverage is to try to get the employer to change its mind—usually by striking.
An employer’s leverage, on the other hand, is its ability to outlast the union–often by replacing striking workers.
People often vote to unionize on the belief that, somehow, the union will solve an issue that they have—whether it’s wages, benefits, or even unfair treatment.
By law, (under NLRB precedent cases) unions can promise to fix whatever it is that employees have trouble with.
However, the reality is, unions cannot guarantee one single improvement for employees.
All a union can do is ask. It is up to the employer to decide whether it will agree to the union’s requests.
Sometimes collective bargaining could take more then 3 years. Bronfenbrenner studied a representative sample of hundreds of NLRB representation elections conducted between 1999 and 2003 and found that many of the unions that won representation were never able to bargain a first contract. As shown in the chart, a majority of organized units had no collective bargaining agreement one year after the election. Within two years, more than one-third still had no contract, and by three years that portion was still around 30%. (Source)
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