“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can choose to change the world”.
Nelson Mandela
President’s Message
Contract Negotiations Update as of 4/4/2019
Dear UCEA members:
The UCEA negotiations team met with the Board team on Monday, April 2nd at Jose Marti. In attendance for the UCEA were David Pressey, Astrid Amar, Mario Amaya, Richard Diaz, Joan Sherwood and Ed Stevens. Representing the Board were Superintendent Abbato, Board attorneys Elise DiNardo and Susanne Lavelle, and Lisa Narcisse from Reliance Insurance Group, the board’s insurance broker.
Again, the majority of the meeting was taken up by the topics of salary and health benefits. These issues have been difficult since the beginning of this process. In both areas, we made significant progress on Tuesday. However, there is still a lot of work to be done. In addition to salary and benefits, we still have some language issues and other financial matters to get through. We will be meeting with the board again next Thursday, April 11th. Between now and then, there will be meetings to make further progress on salary and benefits.
We will keep you posted after these meetings.
In solidarity,
The UCEA Negotiations team
David Pressey, Astrid Amar, Mario Amaya, Richard Diaz, Leo Gosselin, Joan Sherwood and Ken Such
—
David Pressey Waldburg
Our next meeting is scheduled for April. 11, 2019 was canceled. We will get back to you after we get a new meeting date
—
Juana Arias-Dominguez for
David Pressey Waldburg
David Pressey
