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While there are still details to be worked out, we have agreed that the first bargaining session will be held on Tuesday, February 3rd, starting at 4:30 pm in the RHS library.
Please come and support the REA Bargaining Team! We will hold time with members to answer questions after the initial exchange of proposals. Earlier today, January 26, the District shared with all staff their version of events on their website. There was much in there that we feel painted over the true nature of what is taking place. The District has also threatened REA with an Unfair Labor Practice because we refuse to accept one of their suggested locations.
This afternoon we sent a response to their latest refusal to collaborate and threat of an ULP. Here is that message: __________________________________________________ At our January 21st meeting, REA expanded our original three proposed locations with an additional location - Woodland Elementary - and an offer to continue to collaborate with the District on other locations. The District’s eventual response was to, once again, offer Edgefield as the sole location. This is why we characterize the District as dictating a location rather than collaborating. Unlike the District, however, collaboration is more than just a phrase to add at the end of an email. In genuine collaboration we offer the following:
If the District opts to file an Unfair Labor Practice charge against REA, please inform the Employment Relations Board that REA was willing to meet at any location that had sufficient space and parking for members (we’ve had over 100 people present at some sessions in the last bargain). Please share that the District believes we are not “engaging in good faith” because we refuse to choose from the District’s three preferred options (one of them our own union hall which the District knows does not have space for in-person attendees). Please also share that the District generated excuses to not use locations we have had recent in-person successor CBA sessions and past practice going back decades and are similar to those used by all other districts in Oregon. Finally, please include how the District never responded to several of our information requests during the Furlough MOU bargain. REA remains ready to inform the ERB of these behaviors, and more, if the District neglects to do so on their own. ______________________________________________________ We hope to have another update soon. We originally advertised that the RSD and REA Bargaining Teams would be meeting on January 27th to exchange initial proposals. Unfortunately, that date is now in jeopardy. While we had originally agreed to use the RHS library for that meeting on December 5th, 8th, and 9th, and the District reached out to building admin to secure the location on December 11th, the District team backed out of that agreement on December 18th and has since attempted to dictate to REA where we can meet.
REA’s Bargaining Team has offered to meet at any location that does two things:
Those locations are:
The reality is that the District does not want you there. They want members to be sidelined and kept at a distance from the process. They want to see you as numbers and figures in a contract, not as real people with real lives impacted by their decisions. They recognize–rightly–that your participation in your contract helps the REA Bargaining Team meet your needs and demands. We will update you next week on whether or not we are meeting on Tuesday, January 27th. |
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