Bargaining Goals Move to WEAC Board

WEAC’s Collective Bargaining Goals Committee has endorsed new statewide collective bargaining goals for teachers and education support professionals for 2003-05 and sent them to the Board of Directors.

“Our members have lost 7% to inflation in the last decade,” WEAC Collective Bargaining Director Mike McNett said. “We will ask locals to propose cost-of-living increases and the recovery of losses from the QEO. WEAC will work with the Doyle administration to eliminate the QEO. Given the possibility of changes in the bargaining environment, locals may choose to focus on seeking a fair bargaining law and proceed cautiously at the table.”

The standards also include no fringe benefit losses, and bargaining Elementary and Secondary Education Act and new teacher licensure issues.

“Educators deserve a voice in education. They should participate in professional development. They should help new educators succeed,” McNett said. “It is important to make entry-level salaries competitive in order to attract the brightest and best to the profession and ensure that ESP get a living wage.”

Coordination, unity are key to new bargaining goals
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Posted February 5, 2003