Bargaining Briefs

March 07, 2023

Today your PAT Bargaining Team met with PPS management for our 5th bargaining session. PAT has already presented our full package of proposals to PPS management along with several counter-proposals. PPS came to the table today with proposals on Compensation, Retirement, and Extended Responsibility....

February 23, 2023

Hello Educators, Today your PAT Bargaining Team met with PPS management for our 4th bargaining session. PAT has already presented our full package of proposals to PPS management along with several counter-proposals. Our team was disappointed to learn that, despite promising to bring their financial...

February 14, 2023

Hello Educator, Today your PAT bargaining team met with District administrators. We spent most of the session discussing academic freedom and the impact of testing on instructional time. As professionals, we know that it’s our job to teach in a way that reaches every...

January 31, 2023

Dear Educator, We hope you have had a chance to check out our 2023 Bargaining Platform, and all the critical improvements we’ll be fighting for this year. You can find out more on our website http://www.pdxteachers.org/bargainingvision including: Our 2023 Bargaining Platform (2 pages) PAT President Angela Bonilla’s...

January 30, 2023

Hello Educator, Today your PAT bargaining team met with PPS administrators and shared PAT's vision for great public schools. Our comprehensive package of proposals reflect the priorities you’ve shared over the past few months, through bargaining surveys, listening sessions, and school site meetings, including:...

January 11, 2023

Hello Educators, Yesterday, your bargaining team met with the District for our final session focused solely on student support, discipline and safety (contained in Article 9 of the PAT-PPS contract). You can watch the bargaining session on the PAT YouTube channel. Later this month we will...

December 16, 2022

  Hello Educators, On Tuesday, December 13th, PPS and PAT held their last Article 9 Bargaining Session of the year. PAT heard the District’s responses and counter-proposals for Article 9. There are several concepts where we have agreement, especially around the need for trauma-informed...

November 17, 2022

Hello PAT Educators, Yesterday our bargaining team met with PPS leaders to continue our discussion of the safety and behavior issues affecting so many of our buildings (watch the full session on the PAT youtube channel). Many thanks to special education teachers Ginger Huizar...

November 01, 2022

Hello Educator, Today educators met with District leaders to address two pressing issues—what to do about the sharp rise in safety and behavior issues across PPS and how to best meet the needs of our special education students, who now account for close to...

October 13, 2022

Dear Educator: After agreeing to negotiate over the Safety and Student Discipline article (Article 9) in the PAT-PPS contract, the District recently informed PAT that they are unilaterally implementing a new "Disciplinary Matrix."  As you know first hand, safety is already a major challenge...