The Associaton of Salem Keizer Education Support Professionals has a tenttive agreement

 

We worked late into the night Wednesday and Thursday along with District Leadership to secure an agreement that we all deserve! We did this together!! COLA 7%, 3.75%, 4% Retroactive to July 1st, 2023. $100, $40, and $25 towards insurance. $5000 Recognition & Retention Stipend for all full time members and $2500 to less than half time members. 4% Bilingual Differential. New and improved Health & Safety language. ...and so much more! Your dedicated commitment to showing up and standing up to have your VOICE heard is what won US an historic contract! Stay tuned for more information about an all-member meeting. It will be scheduled in the coming days to discuss the full contract and ratification process... WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER

Support education workers and educators working in the Salem-Keizer School District on February 7!

 

Rally to support Salem-Keizer classified school staff on Monday, January 29

 

We support Salem-Keizer educational workers!

 

Labor Solidarity Rally In Salem TOMORROW

 

Support for Salem-Keizer Classified Staff Teachers, A Great Radio Interview With Union Leaders, And A Union Rally On 12/28

Jamie Partridge, the ubiquitous Portland-area labor activist and one of the KBOO Labor Radio magnets, sent us a link to a radio interview that he recently did with Salem-Keizer area Salem-Keizer Education Association (SKEA) and Association of Salem Keizer Education Support Professionals (ASK ESP) member-leaders. Jamie is a member of the National Association of Letter Carries #82, Portland Democratic Socialists of America, and Portland Jobs with Justice so he brings some special background and context to his labor radio work. This is a strong interview that gets to the heart of what's going wrong in union contract negotiations between the unions and our school district. Understanding what's going on here seems fundamental to serving as a School Board Director or as a Salem or Keizer city councilperson or running as a candidate for a position on either body, but we have heard that the school board directors have been told not to talk to the unions and we're not aware of positive engagement from Salem or Keizer city councils.

Jamie Partridge's blurb advertising this great show reads as follows:

Rank-and-file leaders of Salem-Keizer education union discuss their struggles for fair union contracts and how they're getting strike ready.

Kimberly Reed Zauber and Geovanny Tolentino of the Salem-Keizer Education Association (SKEA, the certified teachers) plus Jeff Jabin and Brian Zauber Reed of the Association of Salem-Keizer Education Support Professionals are interviewed by Labor Radio host Jamie Partridge.

Go here to hear the interview.

We stand with the SKEA and AK-ESP unions!

The Marion-Polk-Yamhill Central Labor Chapter holiday party had members of the Association of Salem-Keizer Education Support Professionals and the Salem Keizer Education Education Association attending. It was a great party and the event was enriched the presence of many members of the two unions. Both unions are in tough contract negotiations right now. Our blog is carry lots of information about solidarity actions supporting them.     

A solidarity action with Salem-Keizer classified workers on December 12

Salem-Keizer School District workers are having a difficult time in union contract negotiations. Our solidarity is needed. Please turn out at the District offices on Commercial Street on Tuesday, December 12 and be a voice for solidarity, progress, public workers and education.  

Please support the Salem-Keizer Education Association and the Association of Salem Keizer Education Support Professionals

This is the SKEA bargaining team.

 The photo was taken from SKEA.

Wednesdays are Red for Ed days in the Salem-Keizer Public Schools! Yesterday was the first day of mediation between the Salem-Keizer Education Association (SKEA) and the District. The union held an impressive rally and the union members and supporters who turned out were enthusiastic and loud. SKEA and the Association of Salem Keizer Education Support Professionals (ASK ESP) both deserve our full support as they try to win contracts under especially difficult circumstances.