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VTA membership,
The district holds these core values; Trust, Respect, Collaboration, and Equity. However we simply don’t see these values being reflected by the current proposals we have seen at the bargaining table. Respect: While we are all bearing the weight of astronomical inflation to gas prices, increased cost of food and rent, the district’s answer is that they’ve met their fiscal goal with last year’s 3.5% increase while continuing to pocket 2 years of super COLAs (over 10%). While our SPED educators face unfilled aide positions and caseload overages, our district is asking them to give up the right to say no to signing a waiver to go over caseload. Essentially forcing caseload overages across the district WITHOUT compensation. Is this how our district shows their RESPECT for our membership? Collaboration: We hold our Monday meeting time for Common Core Collaboration in high regard as sacred time to meet and have discussions and yes, collaborate with our colleagues. The district’s proposal does not honor peer collaboration, it dismantles it. The current proposal seeks to implement district and administrative control over 3 Monday collaboration meetings a month, essentially hijacking our planning and collaboration time. It becomes district PD, it’s no longer a collaboration. We aren't being treated or respected as professionals. Is this how our district values COLLABORATION, by reducing collaboration time? We are a highly trained workforce that are not being valued as professionals. Speak out and show a sign of solidarity by wearing your VTA shirts on Wednesday, April 20th (please wear black if you don’t have a shirt yet). When our district leadership makes their rounds to each PD and takes photos they will see a WAVE of VTA strength! Let’s see how many photos they post, see how many we can post! Post pictures of yourself with your coworkers on our PD day wearing our shirts. Flood social media before the day starts, during lunch, and at the end of the day with pictures of our members wearing our VTA shirts in support of #WEAREVTA #VUSD. Please continue wearing your VTA shirts once a week including next Wednesday April 27th, our next Bargaining meeting with the district. Please keep posting your photos on social media every week! Respectfully and with Solidarity, VTA Leadership Teams _____________________________ Here are the District’s Vision Mission and Values Vision: Our vision in Vista Unified School District is to be the model of educational excellence and innovation. Mission: The purpose of Vista Unified School District is to inspire each and every student to persevere as critical-thinking individuals who collaborate to solve real-world problems. Values: Trust, respect, collaboration, equity And here is how they are showing it… VUSD -teacher sub shortage, our educators need to help us fix this -Monday meetings, the district has so much they need to get out to us so they would like to have control over three meetings each month -teacher shortage especially in SPED causing caseload overages, educators need to help solve this by going over caseload -We need more classes available to students in high school, more periods per day, educators can fix this by taking on more students and more periods VUSD’s proposal -take away the right to decline taking extra students or subbing during your prep time, forcing educators to accept extra students into their classroom or teach during the prep -district/admin control over 3 Monday meetings per month, leaving 1 per month that educators have control over -take away the right to decline signing waivers for special ed to go over caseload -take away maximum student contact caps for middle and HS -no salary increase and no benefit proposal If Vista truly wants to honor their mission, vision and values and show that Vista values its educators, they may want to start by taking notes… VTA proposal: -6% salary increase -benefit increase -increased prep time for TK through 3rd and Adult Ed -continued protection of prep time for all members -contact caps for counselors and psychologist
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Members,
It has been wonderful visiting sites and meeting members. If I have not yet been to your site, please contact your site representative to set up a site visit. Bargaining Update: Your VTA Bargaining team met with the district April 12th to begin bargaining the 2022/2023 contract. The district made proposals for articles 12: Salaries, 18: Teachers’ Duty Hours, 20: Class Size, and 30: Special Education. VTA shared their proposals for articles 12, 13: Unit Member Benefits, 18, and 20. We will make our proposal on article 30 at the next bargaining meeting with the district. We will respond to the district’s proposals following collaboration and direction from our VTA Executive Board. We will meet with our executive board on Monday April 18, 2022. The district offered a 0% salary increase and rejected the 6% increase your bargaining team proposed. 6% is a reasonable starting point given the current projections for COLA. It is unfortunate that the district is feel’s that they have met their goal regarding salary at this time and has not addressed inflation or cost of living increases that directly affect their staff. Please keep a look out for future bargaining updates. What can you do now? Let the board members know how you feel about a 0% salary increase and what that does to your ability to help you provide a quality education for your students. Here are some talking points:
Continue to wear your VTA shirts on Thursdays (or your site's VTA Shirt Day). and on all bargaining days. We return to Bargaining on April 27th. Wear your shirts on that day and post a pic on social media of you and your VTA Family wearing your shirts. #strongertogether, #wearevta, #vistaTA, #local1088, #westandbehindVTAbargaining Be ready to come out to the May 5th Board Meeting. More information will be coming. Make sure you keep an eye out for future emails these next few weeks. The One-Time and Retro Pay What we know is that the one-time is anticipated to be in the April pay warrant and the Retro pay will hopefully be on our May or June warrants. Human Relations will have more accurate information. We encourage you to email HR to ask when we will receive these payments. |
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