The Columbus City Board of Education and the Columbus Education Association will return to the negotiating table on Wednesday.
CEA spokesperson Regina Fuentes said federal mediators have asked the parties to return to the negotiating table.
The City of Columbus Schools confirmed in an email that all parties have been asked to meet on Wednesday.
“As the Board has stated, they will continue to work on these negotiations committed to resolution under the guidance of a federal mediator,” district spokesperson Jacqueline Bryant said in an email. “We remain focused on starting school on August 24th with our teachers, but we are gearing up for a different outcome. I will share it with the larger community.”
news:Columbus teachers’ union leaders vote to give 10 days’ notice of intention to strike
On Thursday, the union’s legislative assembly unanimously voted to give unions 10 days’ notice of their intention to strike in districts. CEA’s approximately 4,500 members include teachers and other support staff.
The Columbus Teachers Union voted to allow 10 days of strike notice. What are unions looking for?
The notice of intention to strike came after negotiation sessions between unions and districts ended in July, with districts presenting a “final offer” and a negotiation session originally scheduled for this month not taking place. .
Unions are asking for class sizes to be reduced. Full-time art, music and physical education teacher. A heating and cooling system that works in a school. Give teachers time to plan. Maximum number of teaching hours per day. and “other working conditions for recruiting and retaining the best educators for students.”
What we know:Columbus teachers union votes to allow 10 days of strike notice
Unions must give the state Employment Relations Commission 10 days’ notice of their intention to strike by Thursday, and could go on strike as early as August 22nd. Union members will meet on August 21 to vote on whether to formally go on strike.
Columbus City Board of Schools Calls Special Meeting
The district last went on strike in 1975.
On Friday afternoon, the school board called a special meeting for Monday night.
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According to the news release, “the board will immediately ‘suspend the board to prepare, conduct and review negotiations and negotiations with public officials regarding their compensation and other terms and conditions of employment.'”
Columbus City Schools Claim Union Spreads ‘Misinformation’
On Wednesday, the district announced it would file an unfair labor practices complaint against the union. At a press conference, Adair said it was due to misunderstandings by the union about the district’s “final” contract offer.
This includes the fact that the current final proposal does not guarantee modern HVAC systems in each building, does not accommodate small class sizes, and does not provide working conditions to recruit and retain the best educators for students. It included the union’s claim that it was not guaranteed.
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Board chair Jennifer Adair said the final proposals included no high school teachers teaching more than 150 students a day and a gradual reduction in lower class sizes. , said it addresses all these issues.
She added that the offer submitted to the union at the end of July was not the district’s “final offer.”