Bargaining Update #5: A Waste of Time?
Bargaining With The State Administrator’s Team : A Waste of Time?
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OEA bargaining team members spent a frustrating and ultimately fruitless day today waiting for the OUSD / State Administration (SA) team to give us their proposed contract language for Article 12 (transfers and consolidations). We wasted a day—and bargaining team members were unable to teach their students all day—because the SA team wasn’t prepared. Here are the details:
8:30am OEA team arrives to prepare for the day’s 10AM – 3PM session.
10:10am SA team arrives, says they’ll need an hour to prepare their proposals.
1:15pm SA team says their proposal will be ready “in 15 to 20 minutes”.
3:00pm End of bargaining day. SA team says their proposal is “ready”.
This is why OEA says: Create Success, Don’t Just Expect It
