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Coalition of SF City College Unions Urge Mayor Breed to Support Revenue Measure to Restore, Improve CCSF
Friday afternoon, members of the San Francisco City College Revenue Unity Coalition, representing the unions that employees of SF City College (CCSF) belong to, met with SF Mayor London Breed. We introduced a plan to generate the annual $43.7 million they have identified as a gap between current revenue and what is needed to meet the minimum demand for CCSF programs and services.
Classified Layoffs on the Agenda at Today’s School Board Meeting. Come Speak Out!
Are you aware that classified staff layoffs are on the agenda for today’s school board meeting?
SCUSD did not provide SEIU a layoff list. SCUSD has not negotiated over the impact of layoffs with the SEIU leaders or our bargaining team. This is not the correct process.
UPDATE: We have obtained the layoff list. You can view it here.
SEIU/SCTA Joint Plan of Action to Protest SCUSD Bad-Faith Bargaining & Address the Staffing Crisis
The staffing crisis continues in Sac City:
- The shortage of bus drivers, instructional aides, health aides, custodians, and other classified support staff has hindered services to students.
- 3,000 students every day are without even a substitute teacher.
- 600 students remain waiting to be enrolled in independent study because there aren’t enough teachers.
- Despite having the largest reserve fund in its history ($125 million) and having received an additional $313 million in federal and state COVID funds which the United State Secreta
OUSD Chapter Bargaining Update: We’ve Reached a Tentative Agreement!
Despite the challenges of the current year–with all the extra workload and stressors that COVID has brought, struggling with school closures, impending layoffs, the threat of a state takeover, and economic inflation–your bargaining team has shined through unprecedented adversity and reached a tentative agreement with OUSD management.
Your bargaining team was committed to the negotiations process and sacrificed countless hours away from our families to fight for fair wages and improved working conditions for our members.
OUSD Chapter Bargaining Update: We Are Close to an Agreement!
Your bargaining team and OUSD management made tremendous progress at the bargaining table this week, and we anticipate reaching a substantive deal in the coming days that will benefit our members, including:
Sacramento City Unified School District Transportation Workers Protest Unsafe Working Conditions and Short-Staffing That Endanger Health and Safety of Kids, Staff
The situation has reached a crisis point in recent weeks, with supervisors telling bus drivers who test positive to continue working and putting kids who have tested positive on school buses
As the Omicron variant has ripped through Sacramento, schools that have long been at a tipping point are in a full-fledged crisis. Nowhere have the effects of the latest COVID surge been more acutely felt than among SCUSD transportation workers. These workers were already short-staffed before Omicron hit and now find themselves required to work in conditions that put themselves, their families, the students they transport, and entire school communities at grave risk.
Oakland Unified School District Members, Community Protest School Closures in Black Communities
Come to the OUSD Board of Education Special Meeting Tues. 2/8 at 5pm to Speak Out
Oakland Unified School District is trying to close as many as 14 schools in Black and brown communities. Hundreds of union members, parents, students, and community members came out Friday afternoon to protest the school closures, and SEIU 1021 OUSD Chapter Vice President Donneva Reid addressed the crowd.
The OUSD Board of Education is holding a special meeting TOMORROW, Tues., Feb. 8, starting at 5pm, at which they will be voting on the school closures.
TOMORROW at 5pm: Speak Out Against School Closures at Special School Board Meeting
Oakland Unified School District is trying to close numerous schools in Black and brown communities. The OUSD Board of Education is holding a special meeting TOMORROW, Tues., Feb. 8, starting at 5pm, at which they will be voting on the school closures.
We MUST show up and make sure they know we won’t stand by silently while they destroy entire school communities, cause even further distress and upheaval to our students, and lay off hardworking staff.
OUSD Chapter Bargaining Update: Making Progress; More Action Needed
Way to turn out in numbers at this past Monday’s special OUSD Board of Education meeting!
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS!
Please show up again to the February 8th Board meeting and call out board members who are in favor of school closures and layoffs. NO CUTS! NO CLOSURES! NO LAYOFFS!
Your bargaining team put in an extended day of contract negotiations yesterday and made progress on some of the proposals.
TONIGHT at 5pm: Protest OUSD School Closures!
Join OUSD parents TODAY, Tuesday, February 1, from 5 to 7 pm as we protest the Oakland Unified School District’s decision to proceed with additional closures of public schools.
Here are the two addresses and times for the car caravan/protest on February 1: