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NEGOTIATIONS 2008

CONTRACT VOTE
Ballotting took place until Friday, November 14, 2008.   

The vote count ended up at 426 to accept, 63 to reject and authorize a strike.   The Board of Education voted to accept the contract on Tuesday, November 18, 2009 by a count of 5-0. 

Some thoughts on our insurance benefits.
Procedures around membership meeting and ratification vote.
Details of the tentative agreement reached 10/30/08.
CHTU Executive Board votes to direct the President to move us to final proposals.
To prepare for negotiations your Union tries to analyze the cost of our proposals to the board.  To do this we use EMIS data and board publications that reveal spending trends.
How much should you expect in retroactive pay?
This is the teacher salary schedule if the 2.5% raises are ratified.
No news is sometimes good news, bad news, or sometimes just means there is no news.
Response to statement given by the board president at the September 16, 2008 board work session.
Here are quick Facts #1, and #2.
This update is a response to the inaccuracies in the September 11, 2008 CHUH District News.
This letter was printed in the Sun Press 9/10/08 to clear up mistakes in the 9/3/08 edition.
Update after the September 10, 2008 negotiations session.
The second meeting with the Federal Mediator, September 10, 2008 produced some changes to the board and union positions.
Open Letter sent to the Board and the Community urging authorization for the Board team to negotiate.
Clarification on last update.
This is where we stand after our first negotiation session since May 14 using the federal mediator.
Negotiations update concerning our meeting dates over the summer.
Votes are in!
One would think "Collaboration " would only have one meaning.  It does not as far as we can tell at the bargaining table.
Here is a look at how much money goes into your pocket from a 2% raise.
The executive board of the union votes to reccomend rejection of the board offer.
This issue deals directly with the costs to the Board for the salaries and benefits we are asking.
Update to members from May 27, 2008.  Here are steps that we have gone through to get to this point; from the bargaining poll in the fall through a vote of the members.
Negotiations update to members, May 23, 2008 on Security Monitors issues.
Negotiations update to members May 22, 2008 on Suuplemental contracts and other money items.
Membership update from May 20, 2008 - Contract Language.
Membership update from May 19, 2008 - Teacher Time.
Negotiations update to members fromMay 16, 2008 - Insurance Benefits.
Introduction to negotiations from May 15, 2008.
Look under NEGOTIATIONS 2008 for the latest updates!



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