To: WIS Colleagues
Posted by Joy Grabar, SLL
Date: 4-23-2017
Re:
Tentative agreement reached!
Dear Waiakea Intermediate School Colleagues,
Copied below is the email received from R. Yamanaka.
For updates on contract and ratification voting: teachers, please check this site regularly.
Critical dates are Monday, 4/24, for informational meeting, and Thursday, 4/27, for RATIFICATION VOTING. Both meetings will be at Waiakea High School's cafeteria. Highlighted text and Notes by J. Grabar
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From: R. Yamanaka
Email Date: 4-23-2017, 8:42 pm
Re: FW: [MARKETING] Tentative agreement reached!
THIS MESSAGE IS GOING OUT BCC TO ALL SLLS. PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR TEACHERS VIA YOUR PHONE TREE, EMAILS, ETC.
1. We have a tentative agreement which will be discussed during our informational meetings on:
Monday April 24th @ Waiakea High café from 3:30-5:00pm
Tuesday April 25th @ Keaau High library from 3:30-5pm
Wednesday April 26th @ Ka’u High band room from 3:30-5pm
Teachers may attend any informational meeting. Your chapter president Dawn Raymond, Board member Val DeCorte, Negotiations chapter chairs Evette Tampos and Aaron Kubo and I will be leading the review and answering questions.
2. Teachers should be checking their personal emails for more HSTA emails regarding the contract later tonight and tomorrow. Details of the TA will be released at that time.
3. Head Reps. should be checking with their office on Monday, April 24th as I will be dropping off a summary of the TA for each teacher. Be sure to place copies in every teacher’s box and tell them to bring it to the informational meeting. (NOTE: If I do not have time to drop the Hilo/Waiakea packets on Monday, they will be at Waiakea High that afternoon for distribution.
Note: If teachers do receive a copy of the TA before the meeting, please bring that document to the meeting for your reference. Per RA meeting: there will be no extra copies available; One copy per teacher.)
4. Ratification voting will be on Thursday April 27th at the following sites: NOTE: ALL teachers vote on the tentative agreement (DOE and charter teachers, HSTA members or not)
Waiakea High café from 3:00-6pm
Keaau High library from 3:00-6pm
Ka’u High band room from 3:00-6pm
Ballots will be counted immediately after the voting time period ends. Results will be phoned into the HSTA office that evening. If the Tentative Agreement is ratified by the teachers, the legislature will be notified so that the appropriate funding is added to the budget bill which must be finalized by end of day on Friday April 28th.
Thanks for your support and activism these past few months, and many thanks to those who submitted negotiations issues and concerns! It truly made a difference. Please read Corey’s message below;
rae
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Tentative agreement reached: 13.6% pay hike over four years
Aloha Colleagues,
I am happy to announce that a tentative agreement has been reached between the HSTA and the employer for a four-year contract from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2021.
On Saturday, April 22, the Negotiations Committee met and recommended that the Board of Directors accept the agreement and recommended it to the membership. The HSTA Board of Directors then voted unanimously to accept the tentative agreement, authorize a contract ratification vote on Thursday, April 27 and unanimously recommended ratification to HSTA's members.
A joint meeting of the Board of Directors and the Negotiations Committee received a briefing on the tentative agreement Saturday.
Informational meetings, where teachers can be briefed on the settlement and have their questions answered, will be held after school Monday, April 24 through Wednesday, April 26. See the informational meeting schedule here.
Here are the locations and times of the ratification votes on Thursday, April 27.
Thank you for standing up for public education and the schools our keiki deserve. The collective action taken by teachers this school year played a major role in helping us to reach this tentative agreement that serves the best interests of teachers and students.
The tentative agreement is a win for teachers and over a four-year period and provides for pay raises through across-the-board salary increases, step movements and bonuses for teachers at Step 14B. The increases will be equivalent to a compounded 13.6 percent raise over that four-year period.
Further details on the contract -- including all of the detailed tentative agreements -- will be released in another Member Matters email blast later tonight.
In addition, the state has agreed to provide more money toward teachers’ health premiums.
The agreement also includes language about one of the major negotiations sticking points — teacher evaluations. For the next two years, the great majority of our tenured members will go through the streamlined evaluation process while the Joint Committee works to change and improve evaluation.
Other highlights include improvements to the assignment and transfers process, the establishment of a committee to address our English language learners (ELL) and the continuation of the 21 professional development hours with pay and credits. The agreement allows us to renegotiate health plan contributions and 21 hours in years three and four.
There are so many people to thank who made this agreement possible. First off, our amazing Negotiations Team and Negotiations Committee have worked for months to make this happen. I was happy to work with our Negotiations Team members Paul Daugherty and Shannon Kaaa under the amazing leadership of Chair Osa Tui and Vice Chair Diane Mokuau. The team rolled with the punches and continued to come up with innovative ways to get the best deal possible for teachers within the confines of the state’s difficult fiscal situation. Our Chief Negotiator Andrea Eshelman has kept us on track and provided positive, excellent leadership, even when things looked grim.
Above: The Negotiations Team signs off on tentative agreements after 1 a.m.Saturday at HSTA headquarters.
Words cannot express how grateful we are to Governor David Ige for personally getting deeply involved in our negotiations. We send a heart-felt mahalo to the governor and his chief of staff, Mike McCartney, who spent hours and hours at HSTA during bargaining sessions over the last three days, sometimes coming back twice in the same day and staying past midnight.
Above: Gov. Ige enjoyed reading through teachers' petitions as he spent hours with our Negotiations Team.
But most important, I’d like to thank every teacher who took the time to speak up and speak out at rallies, on petitions, in testimony, emails, letters and phone calls over the last few months. Your collective voice was heard loud and clear.
Your Board and I hope HSTA members will vote to ratify the agreement. After nine months of negotiations, this agreement represents a major step in the right direction that will help to attract and retain the best and brightest teachers and allow Hawaii to move forward to transform public education and produce real results for students.
Mahalo,
Corey Rosenlee
HSTA President
Further details on the contract -- including all of the detailed tentative agreements -- will be released in another Member Matters email blast latertonight.
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