Bargaining Briefs

November 14, 2017

Click here for a PDF Special Education in a Downward Spiral For years PPS has been shortchanging special education. Students with some of the greatest needs aren’t getting the services and individualized attention they deserve, and now these problems are rippling across entire buildings....

November 03, 2017

Your bargaining team met with our counterparts from the District for face-to-face mediation yesterday. We were happy to have our new Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero at the table for the first time, in addition to Kylie Rogers, Chief Human Resources Officer.  At the outset of...

October 31, 2017

Download a PDF of the Bargaining Brief Future Mediation DatesThere are several bargaining dates scheduled in November. We have agreed to three mediation dates on November 2nd, 15th, and 16th. In addition, we have scheduled multiple small group meetings between HR representatives and PAT...

October 27, 2017

Download the PDF of the Workload Factsheet We Need Time! As professionals, we need time to do our jobs well. Unfortunately, the District’s bargaining proposals shortchange teaching and learning and will only add to our overstretched workload. We feel the squeeze on many levels.

October 03, 2017

PPS Continues to Submit Incomplete and Inaccurate Bargaining Proposals After months of exchanging bargaining proposals, Laird Cusack, the PPS bargaining chair, continues to submit inaccurate and incomplete bargaining proposals. The PPS proposals do not consistently employ standard contract writing processes which would show when...

September 29, 2017

Download this Factsheet PPS Salary Proposal Falls Short When it comes to compensation, our union’s goal is to secure a fair salary and benefits package, one that allows PPS to attract and retain professional educators.  Unfortunately, Portland educators have been falling behind our peers...

September 21, 2017

Today your Bargaining Team met with the district for our fourth day of mediation since the district ended the IBB process. At the end of the day, we are wondering, did we take steps forward, or just fewer steps backward than we have become...

September 11, 2017

Your bargaining team finally met with our counterparts from the District for face-to-face mediation today.

August 24, 2017

Tuesday evening at 9:14 PM, PPS emailed a proposal to your PAT bargaining team.  After a review of the document on Wednesday, we realized that there were: Brand-new proposals, despite being long-past the deadline for new issues; Proposals that altered or removed already agreed...

July 17, 2017

Your PAT bargaining team met with the district’s bargaining team today for our first mediation session. Although we were in session for more than twelve hours, we were unable to make any tangible progress.