Our contract with Envision Education is ending this year, and your union reps have been working to prepare to bargain a new contract. We had our first bargaining preparation meeting yesterday, and will be meeting with Envision Education management next Monday for our first bargaining session. The EU team that will be attending bargaining meetings will be Michelle Torres, Katherine Lambert, John Kittredge and Court Shuller (with Denise Huey as alternate for Court).
Yesterday the Envision United bargaining team, plus 2 additional reps and our CTA Staff, Gray, met to discuss what EU will be asking for in our new contract. We then took articles directly from the contract and drafted new versions that include new or different language. These drafts will be presented to Envision Education on Monday. We prepared drafts of Article 11: Hours, Duties and Work Year, Article 12: Employee Leave, and Article 16: Class Size and Workload.
If you’d like more details about the article drafts please talk to your school reps. Those present at the meeting yesterday were John Kittredge, Jessi Stein, Michelle Torres, Denise Huey, Taryn Elliot and Katherine Lambert.
Also, you can expect a more detailed update about bargaining after each session starting next week.
