Recent News -

Hi All -

Sorry I didn't post anything last weekend - things were up in the air and I kept waiting to see if anything resolved. And it did - about mid week. We now have a date for our first meeting with Mr. John Martinez, and the rest of the administrations bargaining team. The purpose of the meeting will be to introduce the -we assume - three negotiation teams to each other (two for us, classified and certified and one for them administration) set the ground rules for negotiations, and set several dates for future negotiating sessions.

The date and time for this will be 4:30 on Friday the 16th of November.

And this ushers in a new age and reality for all of us. How interesting and strange it feels - to see our hard work actually make a change.

We have our first newsletter nearly ready to print, and I expect we will be getting it to you in the next week or so.

The bargaining team continues to meet and train, the support team is busy putting together positions on results of survey - we continue to plumb the data for indications of what is most important and to whom, and what other information we can glean from the results. Thank you all who filled in the survey and returned it. This information will help us tremendously.

We have an Employee Rights committee formed, they are working on learning the ropes, the ins and outs of the school and district policies and how those are affected by Collective Bargaining, and what proper procedures are when there is conflict and misunderstanding. Anyone interested in being part of the Employee Rights committee please indicate by email to espanola.nea@gmail.com and we will get right to you.

If you are interested in working on any of our other committees, please indicate by email to espanola.nea@gmail.com as always there is plenty to be done and your commitment can be as little as an hour a month or as much as you like. Remember WE are the NEA.

Till next week.

Brian