eea emergency building meeting april 28, 29, 30 or may 1
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EEA Emergency Building Meeting
April 28, 29, 30 or May 1
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Agenda
• EEA Representative Council Resolution to support a Day of Action against the legislature, Wednesday, May 13.
• Commitment Cards.• School Board Action, Tuesday, May 12.
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The state legislature’s current plans…
• Give themselves an 11.2% raise, but give us MUCH less (House: 4.8% over two years; Senate: 3% over two years)
• Fail to bring funding up to McCleary levels, continuing to violate the Washington Supreme Court’s contempt order.
• Fail to fund Initiative 1351, and instead:– Has proposed sending it back to voters, or – modifying it to lower class sizes in grades K-3 only
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It would take about $26,000 to pay you back for what the legislature has taken from you by not funding COLA
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What has your $26,000 bought for our children?
• Over testing, resulting in anxiety for our students, and loss of about 1/3 of student instruction time.
• Narrowing instructional focus where only reading and math matter.
• 47th worst class sizes in America.
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Wait, it gets worse…• Freezing our healthcare benefits…and
dismantling our plans – while giving other state employees $200 more each
month for benefits• Eliminating our right to bargain for pay with the
District – including TRI pay, which is 14.25% of our pay– The only raises we have had for six years have been
due to bargaining with the District• Tying our evaluations directly to student test
scores
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What have we been doing?• Thousands of phone calls & emails to Olympia• Huge At-Home Town Hall Mtg on March 21• Lobby carloads in Olympia EVERY Thursday• Major rally in Olympia on Saturday, April 25• Concerted WEA lobby & communications
Over 200 people attended our Town
Hall at Columbia River High School. Only
about half the legislators invited
showed up!
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Make it public!
• Dozens of locals, with thousands of members, held walkouts last week.
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Make it big!
• The wave of walkouts is spreading across the state. Thousands of members will be hitting the bricks.
• Delegates to WEA Representative Assembly Passed NBI 32 on 4/25, supporting the state wide action.
• Polls show parents and voters strongly support actually funding 1351 and meeting McCleary; they do not want 1351 sent back to the ballot (Elway poll, April 2015)
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What is EEA doing?“Union is a Verb!”
It’s time to take action! • On 4/27, EEA’s Representative Assembly unanimously
passed a resolution for a Day of Action.• The Day of Action is a PROTEST against the legislature,
not the DISTRICT.• We are asking EVERY member to complete a
commitment card today.• We are asking EVERY member to participate in the
organizing activities on 5/13 to be announced.• EEA will coordinate with the District.• EEA will share next steps.
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EEA needs your support!
An important message from your EEA President, Rob Lutz, Monday, April 27, 2015
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Big Picture: Why us? Why now? • There is no mechanism for statewide strike.• We are the largest local in SW Washington
and 5th largest WEA Local.– We have a responsibility to lead!
• If small locals like Stanwood-Camano and Anacortes can do it, we can, and should.
• This needs to be felt in Republican and swing districts like ours.
• Rolling actions, results in continuous media coverage while the legislature works on the budget.
• Without doing something big… the situation for us and our kids, will NOT get better.
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Two different actions Two different purposes
You are needed for both!• Tuesday, May 12
– School Board Meeting Action.
– 5:00pm at the District Office.
– Purpose: Making clear to the school board the overbearing and unnecessary workload being demanded of our members.
• Wednesday, May 13– Day of political protest– Organized Action during
the school day– Purpose: To publicly
protest the legislature failure to fund education, to do our part to keep the conversation going throughout the state, and to advocate for both ourselves and our students.
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SCHOOL BOARD ACTION Tuesday, May 12
• At the GM in March, the EEA membership voted to share the workload demands, publically with the Evergreen School Board.
• Tuesday, May 12 is the date selected for EEA members to PACK the Evergreen School Board
• Our goal is to share the message of the workload realities with the elected board – No curriculum, Testing, TPEP and PLC demands, No technology, No time to teach, and lack of substitutes!
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We need you!
• Visit EEA website at www.eeaoffice.com and click the link to RSVP for May 12.
• Indicate t-shirt size for free EEA t-shirt.• RSVP no later than Friday, May 1.• We will wear EEA t-shirts in solidarity! You will
pick your shirt up at the event.• Show up at District office on Tuesday, May 12
at 5:00 PM!
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LEGISLATIVE DAY OF ACTIONWednesday, May 13
• The District has been notified of the possibility.• The intent is school would be cancelled and a day
would be added to the end of the calendar (state law requires it) and no one would lose pay.
• We have done this before in the 1990’s and 2000’s!
• We will need ALL EEA members to participate to carry our message of PROTEST against the legislature and maximize media coverage!