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.