Dear Members,
On Wednesday December 15th, your bargaining team was met with further stalling tactics. The budget office has continued to delay providing us with clear budget and cost-out information since we first came to the table. During yesterday’s session, Dianna Gonzales indicated that she was not empowered to reach an agreement on restorations without consultation with the budget office and the Chancellor. We will resume restoration bargaining tomorrow afternoon, the last day of the semester. Tom Boegel and John al-Amin have been AWOL for weeks, and as a result of these issues, we have amended our ULP to clarify the situation: at no point in the restoration process has the District come to the table in good faith.
Clare Heimer, AFT bargaining team member, shared an impressive spreadsheet that helps to forecast the possible savings from our CALSTRS retirement incentive proposal. Your AFT2121 team remains committed to doing the math and showing the calculations to support our conclusions. It is an unfortunate truth, and indicates an unwillingness on the district’s part to bargain in good faith, that the budget office has not done the same.
We are scheduled to meet at 2:30pm. Please register here.
In Unity,
Your AFT bargaining team.
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