Bargaining Briefs
bargaining brief 7/14/17
July 17, 2017
District’s Bargaining Team Pushing for a Crisis! (1) The District’s team ended interest-based bargaining (IBB). (2) The District’s team asked for mediation. This is one of three decision points in state law to move towards the ability to unilaterally implement the District’s bargaining proposal...
Read MoreBargaining Brief 7/6/2017
July 06, 2017
See the PDF District Returns to Legal Maneuvers to Force PAT to Eliminate Workload ProtectionsIf you were here in 2013 before PAT almost went on strike, you will be disappointed to learn that District negotiators are repeating the same aggressive legal strategy to force...
Read MoreBargaining Brief - June 13, 2017
June 15, 2017
District Withdraws from Interest-Based Bargaining (IBB) Our IBB protocols require that both sides meet with the IBB facilitator prior to withdrawing from the process. The District triggered such a meeting which was held last week. At that meeting, it became clear that the District...
Read MoreBargaining Brief 5/24/17
May 24, 2017
District No-Shows Today’s Negotiations A Message From Your Bargaining Chair: Dear Colleagues, While your Bargaining Team came ready to begin another attempt to collaboratively resolve our contract negotiations, we must report that the District chose not to attend bargaining today. In addition, our team...
Read MoreBargaining Brief 5-10-17
May 11, 2017
May 8 & 9, 2017 Bargaining Sessions Your bargaining team met with the PPS team for two straight days on Monday, May 8th and Tuesday, May 9th. As with many of the Bargaining Briefs you have received, we have to report that there were...
Read MoreBargaining Brief - April 19, 2017
April 19, 2017
Progress, but not yet Close to a Settlement Your PAT team met with the District on Monday from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. We originally described the meeting as a “settlement” day, but quickly realized that both sides needed some additional financial information not...
Read MoreBargaining Brief - March 21, 2017
March 21, 2017
View the PDF PAT Salaries Drop in Metro 14The District has presented data in bargaining that may show that PPS staffing ratios may be lower than many metro area districts. That is directly related to PAT’s Schools Portland Students Deserve campaign that focused on reducing workload...
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