Bargaining Goals

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Bargaining Goals
2008-2012 Round of Negotiations

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING GOALS FOR TEACHER AND ESP/PSP LOCALS

To negotiate real salary increases.
To negotiate compressed grids with improved beginning salaries.
To negotiate a maximum class size of 20 in Grades JK-3.
To negotiate a maximum class size of 22 in Grades 4-8.
To negotiate student assessment and reporting time.
To improve preparation time.
To guarantee and improve working conditions.
To defend and improve benefits.
To negotiate a significant reduction in supervision time per five (5) day cycle.
To negotiate pregnancy/parental top-up of 100% for 52 weeks.
To negotiate language that ensures that vice-principals and principals have no teaching time.
To negotiate experience credit to include all occasional teacher work.

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING GOALS FOR OCCASIONAL TEACHER LOCALS

To negotiate paid professional development.
To negotiate experience credit to include casual days and long-term assignments.
To negotiate language to provide priority hiring for permanent positions.
To negotiate language to ensure that all long-term occasional teaching positions are hired from the occasional teacher list.
To ensure that each teacher absence is covered by an occasional teacher.
To negotiate benefit improvements.
To negotiate capped lists.
To negotiate real salary increases.