TOUGH TIMES IN SHORELINE? NOT FOR ADMINISTRATORS!!
While SESPA employees are asked to make devastating cuts to their work year and cut back on professional development, administrative employees have been busy giving themselves raises.
District documents confirm the following compensation increases:
Superintendent $8,276 or a 4.42% increase
Deputy Superintendent $10,000 or a 7.2% bonus
Superintendent’s Assistant $2169 or a 3.5% increase
Deputy Superintend. Asst. $1517 or a 2.7% increase
HR Executive Asst. $1081 or a 2.07% increase
HR Confidential Specialist $1081 or a 2.07% increase
In addition, the Shoreline District quietly changed the classification system for Professional-Technical employees and upgraded several positions.
Transportation Dispatch Lead added to the salary schedule at $55,918
Student Information System $4,082 or a 7.3% increase
HR Certificated Specialist $4,474 or a 6.5% increase
Public Information Officer $4,474 or a 6.5% increase
Capital Projects Coordinator renamed and given $8504 or a 11.7% increase
Network Manager $12,803 or a 15.76% increase
District administration didn’t want to leave out building and central office administrators from the efforts to improve administrative compensation, so they rolled four (4) supplemental days into the base salary schedule; thereby, pumping up the base salary for future increases.
Meanwhile, Shoreline SESPA employees, an affiliate of the WEA, are being asked to accept cuts of 5-24 work days and professional development pay reduced from $25 per hour to as low as $11 per hour. Over 60 percent of SESPA members do not qualify for experience increments and will have their salaries frozen for five years if SESPA ever accepted the District’s wage offer.
SESPA WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS DOUBLE STANDARD AND NOR SHOULD YOU!!
COME TO OUR SIGN MAKING PARTY ON AUGUST 9 AT 2:00 PM AT THE
WEA-CASCADE UNISERV OFFICE, 18704 Bothell Way NE, Suite 101
Bothell, WA 98011 (right behind Café Ladro in the Lovested-Worthington building
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
July 20, 2010 Update on Bargaining
Shoreline School District's ending fund balance continues to grow. We learned on July 19 that the District is projecting the ending fund to reach $ 10 MILLION by the end of August.
They have plenty of money to address the needs of SESPA members.
Did you know that over 60 % of SESPA members do NOT qualify for an experience increment? Why, you ask? Over 40 % are assigned "temporary" hours and temporary work doesn't qualify for increments. Another 20 % of our dedicated veteran employees are stuck at the top of the SESPA salary schedule. Even those at the 20 year step do not earn a "Living Wage" to support themselves and their families.
The district unilaterally declared impasse at our last bargaining session and requested a State mediator. We have been assigned Robin Romeo as our mediator. Rose Ann McLaughlin and Donna Lurie will meet with the mediator on August 4th. Our next bargaining session is scheduled for August 16.
Thanks for your support,
Your Bargaining Team
They have plenty of money to address the needs of SESPA members.
Did you know that over 60 % of SESPA members do NOT qualify for an experience increment? Why, you ask? Over 40 % are assigned "temporary" hours and temporary work doesn't qualify for increments. Another 20 % of our dedicated veteran employees are stuck at the top of the SESPA salary schedule. Even those at the 20 year step do not earn a "Living Wage" to support themselves and their families.
The district unilaterally declared impasse at our last bargaining session and requested a State mediator. We have been assigned Robin Romeo as our mediator. Rose Ann McLaughlin and Donna Lurie will meet with the mediator on August 4th. Our next bargaining session is scheduled for August 16.
Thanks for your support,
Your Bargaining Team
Thursday, July 1, 2010
District says WE ARE NOT WORTHY
June 29 SESPA Bargaining Update – "WE ARE NOT WORTHY"
That’s the message that the SESPA Bargaining Team received from the District Team in the last few days of negotiations. Administrators argued that SESPA employees are paid enough and should accept a contract offer that includes five years of no pay increases from the District (2008-09 through 2012-13) and substantial cuts to nurses, security, behavior techs, and library techs. Some employees are being asked to accept a loss of 24 days of pay! Deputy Superintendent Marcia Harris will argue that SESPA and SEA employees should rely on the (mythical) State Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) that have been suspended for probably the next 4-6 years. Meanwhile, she just got a $10,000 bonus.
Compare this offer with the fact that administrative groups (Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent, confidential assistants, principals, and central office administrators) all received substantial improvements in their compensation packages, in addition to the (mythical) State Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA).
Shoreline School District’s ending fund balance is at an all-time high - over $15 million in the District’s May budget report). A fund balance = the money that is not spent.
Services to kids will be diminished after promising voters that Shoreline will retain the full staffing model of support services for students and families. Will we be forced to close libraries or health rooms for blocks of time? What about time for special education teams to plan behavior interventions and appropriate services for special needs students?
Never mind that SESPA employees were promised by Sue Walker that some restoration would be made to employees when the fund balance returned - in recognition of the sacrifices they have made for Shoreline Schools over the last decade (wage freeze for last two years, suspended professional development stipends, loss of over 100 positions, loss of hours, reductions in benefit programs, etc.)
When the SESPA Bargaining Team refused to freeze wages for five years and accept devastating cuts to our members’ work years, the District Team broke off negotiations and unilaterally declared impasse. The District will request that a State mediator be involved in negotiations. SESPA does not see how ending face-to-face discussions and placing the bargaining teams in separate rooms will improve the parties’ relationship or ability to communicate with each other.
Being RESPECTED, VALUED AND PAID would go a long ways with SESPA employees. If the Shoreline administration truly wants a productive working relationship, then they need to stop treating their hard-working and dedicated employees as "unnecessary expenses" and "non-essential" staff.
Please contact Superintendent Walker at sue.walker@shorelineschools.org and School Board members at school.board@shorelineschools.org to communicate your concern over how SESPA employees are being treated by the Shoreline administration. Talk to your friends and neighbors over the summer.
Thank You for Your Support, from your SESPA Bargaining Team
SAVE THE DATE – AUGUST 16 – COFFEE RALLY AT 7:30 AM
LOCATION TO BE DETERMINED – CHECK www.sespaunion.blogspot.com
That’s the message that the SESPA Bargaining Team received from the District Team in the last few days of negotiations. Administrators argued that SESPA employees are paid enough and should accept a contract offer that includes five years of no pay increases from the District (2008-09 through 2012-13) and substantial cuts to nurses, security, behavior techs, and library techs. Some employees are being asked to accept a loss of 24 days of pay! Deputy Superintendent Marcia Harris will argue that SESPA and SEA employees should rely on the (mythical) State Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) that have been suspended for probably the next 4-6 years. Meanwhile, she just got a $10,000 bonus.
Compare this offer with the fact that administrative groups (Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent, confidential assistants, principals, and central office administrators) all received substantial improvements in their compensation packages, in addition to the (mythical) State Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA).
Shoreline School District’s ending fund balance is at an all-time high - over $15 million in the District’s May budget report). A fund balance = the money that is not spent.
Services to kids will be diminished after promising voters that Shoreline will retain the full staffing model of support services for students and families. Will we be forced to close libraries or health rooms for blocks of time? What about time for special education teams to plan behavior interventions and appropriate services for special needs students?
Never mind that SESPA employees were promised by Sue Walker that some restoration would be made to employees when the fund balance returned - in recognition of the sacrifices they have made for Shoreline Schools over the last decade (wage freeze for last two years, suspended professional development stipends, loss of over 100 positions, loss of hours, reductions in benefit programs, etc.)
When the SESPA Bargaining Team refused to freeze wages for five years and accept devastating cuts to our members’ work years, the District Team broke off negotiations and unilaterally declared impasse. The District will request that a State mediator be involved in negotiations. SESPA does not see how ending face-to-face discussions and placing the bargaining teams in separate rooms will improve the parties’ relationship or ability to communicate with each other.
Being RESPECTED, VALUED AND PAID would go a long ways with SESPA employees. If the Shoreline administration truly wants a productive working relationship, then they need to stop treating their hard-working and dedicated employees as "unnecessary expenses" and "non-essential" staff.
Please contact Superintendent Walker at sue.walker@shorelineschools.org and School Board members at school.board@shorelineschools.org to communicate your concern over how SESPA employees are being treated by the Shoreline administration. Talk to your friends and neighbors over the summer.
Thank You for Your Support, from your SESPA Bargaining Team
SAVE THE DATE – AUGUST 16 – COFFEE RALLY AT 7:30 AM
LOCATION TO BE DETERMINED – CHECK www.sespaunion.blogspot.com
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