Jan 18, 2012
Note: The following letter was shared with all SDEA members this afternoon. SDEA Members— Yesterday Superintendent Bill Kowba sent all of us an email doing exactly what I suggested he would in my own email to you last week: He has begun to call for deep contract concessions based on unknown...
Jan 03, 2012
The new year brings with it some good news already. SDUSD could be looking at millions of dollars in increased revenues following a California Supreme Court ruling last week that heralds the final elimination of redevelopment. Coming on the heels of last month’s good news about our District...
Dec 16, 2011
Due to SDEA staff furlough days and the upcoming holidays, the SDEA office will be staffed only by a skeleton crew for emergency purposes Monday through Wednesday during the weeks December 19 and 26, and will be closed entirely Thursday and Friday of those weeks. Non-emergency issues will be...
Nov 21, 2011
Late Friday afternoon, the District opted to give its employees a Thanksgiving send-off that seems a little lacking in holiday cheer: a request that employees verify our seniority dates (a now-annual request that is not necessarily a precursor to spring layoffs). The District sent out an email...
Nov 18, 2011
The SDEA office will be closed Thursday, Nov. 24 and Friday, Nov. 25 for Thanksgiving. Due to SDEA staff furlough days on Monday, Nov. 21 through Wednesday, Nov. 23, the SDEA office will be staffed by a skeleton crew for emergency purposes. Non-emergency issues will be addressed when the office...
Nov 15, 2011
You cannot help your colleagues in need, or be eligible to receive assistance if you need it, unless you donate a full-salary sick leave day (or more) to the SDEA-AASD-POA Catastrophic Leave Bank. The Catastrophic Leave Bank provides additional paid sick leave when a member runs out of their own...
Nov 04, 2011
In response to concerns, pressure, and anger from SDEA members about their eligible adult dependents being dropped from dental and vision benefits plans, the District decided to extend the deadline by which full-time class schedules need to be submitted to the SDUSD Benefits office. Many SDEA...
Oct 31, 2011
SDEA PRESS RELEASE — SDUSD School Board Trustee Scott Barnett has held two press conferences over the past three workdays designed to inflate and politicize our District’s fiscal situation and to improve his damaged public image. Barnett is yet again suggesting the decimation of the teaching...
Oct 24, 2011
SDEA President Bill Freeman and a dozen other SDEA member delegates to CTA State Council joined roughly 500 rank and file public school teachers from across the state in an Occupy LAUSD protest this past Saturday. Protesters marched from the CTA State Council to the LAUSD headquarters, where...
Sep 07, 2011
Welcome back to a new school year! This new year brings some new structures at SDEA designed to better support site organizing and strengthen our union. If you have a workplace issue, your first and best advocate is your site Association Representative! He or she is the elected union representative...
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