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2016 Field Services & Government Relations Report
Doug Nelson, Field Services and Government Relations Director
Quietly Successful Year
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BARGAINING WITH EMPLOYER
Success without much fanfare
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Signs of success
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4.75% average hourly wage rate increase
Unemployment – back to normal but confusing
Added 1,694 new classified employee positions
$42 million financial gains
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4.75% Salary Increase in 2015-16
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Unemployment
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2006 – 2016 Employee Growth
270 added over 7 years4,776 added over
3 years
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Paraeducators - 63% of New Employees
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2015-16 Financial Gains - Snapshot
$41.7 million
$14.6 million funding by state
$27.1 million from employers
Nearly doubled state funding
$1,463.20 per member
$512.30 with only state funds
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2015-16 Financial Gains - Summary
Salary - $ 35.2 million
State funded - $11.75 million
Local funding - $23.45 million
Insurance - $5.7 million
State funded - $2.85 million
Other permanent increases - $790,656
One time increases - $88,264 10
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2015-16 Financial Gains
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Members
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ELECT SUPPORTIVE POLITICAL CANDIDATES
2016 Election
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PSE primary election contributions
45 candidate endorsements
24 democrats
19 republicans
2 non-partisan
$46,800 contributions to candidates
$26,300 (56.2%) Democrat
$16,500 (35.3%) Republican
$4,000 ( 8.5% ) Non partisan14
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COPE Goal
2015 – 2016
550 members donating $30,000 per year
Revised mid-year to 1,000 members donating $40,000
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COPE
867 members
$42,852
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LegislatureSenate
25 republicans plus 1 democrat
23 democrats
House
50 democrats
48 republicans
1 democrat replaced with 1 republican17
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Primary election results
House
8 races will determine who controls next year
Senate
4 races will determine who controls next year
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November 8
Register to vote
Vote
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2016 SESSION
Fine-tuning
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Member Involvement
Legislative Conference, Jan. 17-18
206 members attended
98 first timers – 71 last year
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Frank J. Warnke Legislative InternsJohn Lohr, Tumwater groundskeeper
Heather Gunderson, Bethel bus driver
Showshana Steen, Evergreen bus driver
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64 Blog Entries
Keeping members informed during session
http://pseclassified.org/category/2016-legislative-session/
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2016 SESSION
So how did we do?
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Higher education tuition backfill
$8 million for tuition backfill at public colleges and universities
$176,000 for Central Washington University
$566,000 for Eastern Washington University
$2,068,000 for Washington State University
$802,000 for Western Washington University
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SB 6408 – Paraeducator bill
Passed Senate 43-5
House education committee amendment killed bill
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$1.75 million consolation prize
Paraeducator professional development
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FEDERAL LOBBYING
NCCESEU & Bob Canavan, Washington DC lobbyist
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NCCESEU
• 1 Million Members
• CSEA (California School Employees Association)
• MSEA (Minnesota School Employees Association)
• NEA (National Education Association)
• PSE/SEIU 1948
• SEIU 284 (Minnesota School Service Employees)
• Meet twice a year to lobby and coordinate efforts
National Coalition of Classified Education Support
Employee Unions
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Current Issues
• 58% of instruction in Title I by Paraeducators
• Are paraeducators “educators”?ESSA – Every Student
Succeeds Act
•White House Champions of Change Momentum
CSEY – Classified school employee of the
year
• IDEA, Head Start, Title I, Pell Grant, Forest Revenue, Impact Aid
Protect federal education funding from
sequestration cuts
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GOALS FOR 2017 SESSION
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Higher education
Fund collective bargaining agreements
Salary and insurance increases
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IMPLEMENT FINAL MCCLEARYRESOLUTION
Most difficult decisions left to the end
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Supreme Court “McCleary” DecisionJanuary 5, 2012
Not funding amply & over-reliance upon local levy to fund basic education
Impressed with HB 2261 / HB 2776
July 18, 2012
Ordered legislature to make steady progress to full funding
January 9, 2014
Speed up efforts, give us a plan to fully implement by 2018
July 10, 2014
Ordered state to appear September 3 to explain why they don’t
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“McCleary” - continued
September 11, 2014 Order Contempt!
Wait until after 2015 legislative session to determine sanctions
August 13, 2015 Order
$100,000 per day fine
“Adopt complete plan to comply with article IX, section 1 by the 2018 school year.”
July 14, 2016 Order
September 7, 2016 Court hearing
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“McCleary” - continued
the estimated cost of full state funding of competitive market-rate basic education staff salaries, including the costs of recruiting and retaining competent staff and professional development of instructional staff;
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Position
Current State
Funding
Current Local
Funding
Total Current Funding
New State Funded
Amount
Teaching Assistance (InstructionalAides/Paraeducators) $31,699 $1,197 $32,896 $45,386
Office Support and other Non-instructional Aides $31,699 $6,037 $37,736 $40,949
Custodians $31,699 $5,070 $36,769 $39,454
Classified staff providing student and staff safety $31,699 $5,651 $37,350 $44,040
Family Involvement Coordinator $45,386
Technology $31,699 $23,249 $54,948 $83,253
Facilities, maintenance and grounds $31,699 $15,616 $47,315 $50,057
Warehouse, laborers, and mechanics $31,699 $10,743 $42,442 $36,522
Central Office, Classified $31,699 $22,872 $54,571 $56,374
Classified salary recommendation
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Cost of salary recommendation
$277 - $324 million
2016 – SB 6195
2015 – several bills debated
HB 2239, SB 6103, SB 6104, SB 6109, SB 6130
2014 - House appropriations committee passed HB 2792 to fully fund
2013 – House passed budget funded 50% of the increase
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Compensation
How to increase state funding and reduce local funding
Fund and restructure insurance benefits
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Problem for us if state pays…
Legislator’s
“Don’t want to write a blank check”
Looking for ways to limit what we can negotiate
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Local levies pay
25% of classified employee costs
$197 million
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Classified employee staffing
State funding formulas should increase
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One example of needed formula change
Initiative 1351 / classified employee adequacy study
$680 million increased funding
Current state funds - $788 million
86% increase
Potential 21,000 new classified employees 44
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State funding increase
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Teaching Assistants (Elementary / Middle / High) 94,913,779
Office Support (Elementary / Middle / High) 103,741,723
Custodians (Elementary / Middle / High) 5,346,783
Student Safety (Elementary / Middle / High) 38,483,136
Parent Involvement Coordinators (E / M /H) 111,130,003
Districtwide Technology Staff 119,730,144
Districtwide Facilities, Maintenance, Grounds Staff 120,560,606
Districtwide Warehouse Staff, Laborers, Mechanics 86,432,305
Total 680,338,479
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Paraeducator bill
Implement paraeducator advisory committee recommendations
Superintendents, principals, administrators, teachers, Paraeducators, parents and interest groups
Standards
Training (including teachers and principals)
Career ladder46
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60.4% Instruction by Paraeducators
Programs for students in poverty, immigrants, or have disabilities
• 464,000 students
• $1.3 billion per year
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Districts report providing no training
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Insurance consolidation
2012 – SB 5940
3:1 Ratio critically important to legislators
3 school years to fix system
System hasn’t met any of the conditions
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K 12 insurance disintegrating
1.6% state funding increase since 2010
Since that time insurance premiums up…
2013-14: 17%
2014-15: 8%
2015-16: 7%
2016-17: 11%
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PEBB – higher education and PSE staff
UMP – 61% state and higher education employees 4% premium increase over 3 year period 10.7% increase this year
WEA Premera – 61% K 12 employees 32% increase over 3 year period 11% average increase this year
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Members
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Bargaining with district
71 open contracts plus,
An equal number of salary and insurance negotiations
Continue successful efforts to negotiate financial gains Fair contract assistance ready and willing
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