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Strike Updates
Yesterday at the Seattle Education Association membership meeting, a vote was taken to authorize a strike. The answer was yes, if the district and SEA do not come to an agreement before school starts on Wednesday, September 5th, the teachers will be on strike.
The School Board has their regularly schedule Board meeting today, starting at 4:15 pm. SEA is urging teachers to picket at their schools from 3:30-4:30 pm with some coming to the Board meeting. So far there are just five speakers on the list so plenty of room for more people to speak.
From Seattle Weekly:
SPS teachers’ salaries range between $51,500 to $100,700 under the current contract, the district’s assistant superintendent for business and finance, JoLynn Berge, told Seattle Weekly in an Aug. 6 interview. Meanwhile, teachers on Bainbridge Island negotiated a 21.2 percent wage increase to earn between $53,905 and $105,096; Shoreline’s union also secured salaries ranging from $62,088 to $120,234 through a 24.2 percent wage increase, according to WEA data.From the district (partial):
Educators are the heart of Seattle Public Schools. The district supports our educators and believe they deserve a fair and competitive salary that includes every dollar the state has provided for compensation. We must balance our desire to support our educators while at the same time sustaining critical services and programs students need and families expect. Even with offering every state dollar, starting in 2019-20 the district is projecting a budget shortfall that will grow over time.From SEA:
A strike authorization does not mean educators are going on strike. Strike authorization gives the SEA bargaining team the authority to call a strike if an agreement is not reached. This is a normal procedural step if a tentative agreement between SEA and the district has not been reached prior to the general assembly meeting. The district and SEA continue to discuss important topics, including compensation, and will resume formal bargaining Wednesday morning. We remain optimistic that school will begin September 5.
I can find no official statement from SEA, either at Facebook or at their website. This is all I find:
SEA members have given their bargaining team authority to call for a strike starting September 5, if a Tentative Agreement is not reached.
One bit of information I gleaned from a teacher writing on Facebook about the negotiations:
They are trying to sell us on a 10% raise, maybe. That does not even put us in line with Bellevue or Lake Washington, even though they claim is does. The middle and high end of the salary scale is still 6-7k lower. Many proposals don’t include these raises for SAEOPS either. Unacceptable. And don’t even get me started on how much teachers are being incentivized to go to nearby Shoreline! A 15% would still leave us far below our neighbor.But at the SEA Facebook page, one teacher said this:
Bargaining is about reaching compromise and in this case it is dire if we go above 10%. It is fact, not fear. I don’t like it either, but Seattle’s situation is such. We have all certs and support staff in our union, and we can’t do the same thing that other districts have done. Scratch that...we could, but union solidarity would be a joke if certs left them all behind. Also, 10% would put certs in comparable pay territory with the numbers in three close districts that are the most similar to us. Is this solving the low pay for living in the city problem? No, sadly. But the levy steal is deep and problematic. The RA was open with the information and honest about the process.Another teacher:
Shoreline’s new salary schedule was released this weekend. A cert at MA+90 with 9 years experience there will get $95,144 now.
Seattle’s current salary for that same lane situation is $73,301.
So even if there was a 10% raise on TOTAL pay, rather than base, which is how they usually do things, that cert would still lag Shoreline by about $15,000. I don’t consider that “comparable pay territory.”
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