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Show Up at Tonight’s Special OUSD School Board Meeting to Speak Out Against Layoffs, School Closures
IMPORTANT: Oakland Unified School District is laying out plans to close or merge up to 19 schools over the next couple of years, with more classified staff layoffs on the table. We need your voice at tonight’s special meeting, starting at 6pm.
Come ready to speak during public comment about:
This Friday: Tell Sup. Aguilar: We Deserve Safety on the Job
Show Up and Help Us Send a Message About Our Health & Safety on the Job!
WHAT: Rally for Health & Safety
WHEN: This Fri., Feb. 4, 9:45-10:45 and 11:30-12:30
WHERE: Serna Center, 5735 47th Ave, Sacramento, CA 95824
WHY?
OUSD Chapter Bargaining Update: Management Refuses to Bargain as We Continue to Fight for COVID Safety Measures and Living Wages
Your bargaining team met again yesterday, Wednesday, Jan. 26, and OUSD management refused to bargain.
Our team is disappointed and feels this is disrespectful to the process and to our members when we have such immediate needs (living wages and COVID safety concerns) that must be addressed.
They dismissed our offer and failed to provide a counter proposal. We are encouraged by our members to keep pressing forward.
WHEN WE STAND TOGETHER, WE WIN!
SCUSD Chapter News & Bargaining Update #20
As you all know, COVID and the Omicron variant have decimated our schools this month. The short staffing has led to chaos, and the District has no plan to address it.
Jan. 19, 2022 OUSD Chapter Bargaining Update
Your bargaining team met again on Wednesday, Jan. 19, and we spent a full day in negotiations. We are pleased to report that we’re finally making some progress in a number of areas.
With the power of our entire membership behind us, we are seeing positive movement from OUSD management on important issues of wages, longevity pay, reviving the Clerical Mentorship Program, and securing more paid training for many staff.
SEIU 1021 and Other SFUSD Unions Reach Agreement That Ensures High-Quality Masks and Weekly Testing for Students and All Employees and Extended COVID Sick Leave
Thanks to the tireless organizing and mobilizing efforts of the members of SEIU 1021 and the other unions of SFUSD, we were finally able to push District management to accept our COVID safety proposals at the bargaining table last night.
City College of San Francisco Left in Disarray After Administration Lays Off Over 40 Classified Staff, Reneging on Agreed-Upon Framework
Incredibly poor communication around the layoffs has added to the damage
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1/7/22**
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, 510.710.0201
URGENT Bargaining Update: As COVID Surges, OUSD Management Continues to Refuse to Negotiate on Safety
With COVID surging once again in our schools and community, you
would think that OUSD management would finally be ready to talk
seriously about safety. Yet they continue to put the health and
lives of OUSD employees, students, and our families on the line
by refusing to bargain on COVID safety.
In fact, despite the bargaining team hustling tirelessly for six
months to get a fair contract, there has been precious little
movement at the table: