{"id":96,"date":"2019-10-22T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/?p=96"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T20:27:57","slug":"union-update-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/2019\/10\/22\/union-update-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Update: October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>We finally have a voice!&nbsp; <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that we have a union, ESS has to bargain with us before making any changes in our wages, hours, or working conditions, including any major discipline of our members.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If any managers try to discipline you, let us know so that we can help.&nbsp; You have the right to a union representative if you are called in for a meeting that could lead to discipline.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our union has already been hard at work to make positive changes for ESS staff.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 21<sup>st<\/sup>, the members elected our bargaining committee:&nbsp; Brookli Potts (School 1), Sheila Wanzer (School 1), Susan Madden (School 5), Marilyn Blaney (School 6), and Teresa Francesconi (School 6). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We created bargaining priorities based on the bargaining surveys we collected, and the members ratified our bargaining proposals at our October 21<sup>st<\/sup> meeting as well.&nbsp; Wage increases, better benefits, and paid holidays were at the top of the priority list.&nbsp; We are still collecting bargaining surveys, if you haven&#8217;t turned one in yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bargaining committee will be meeting soon to work further on proposals and get prepared for meeting with the company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are circulating steward petitions in the schools.&nbsp; We encourage each school and the bus aides to select at least two stewards.&nbsp; Stewards help with communication, solving problems, and representing people facing discipline, among other things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Join a committee to support our contract negotiations!&nbsp; <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are all the union, and all of us have a role to play in improving our jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are forming a contract support committee, a communications committee, and parent, teacher, community, and labor outreach committees. <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/ESS-Union-Update-Flyer-10-22-19-1.pdf\">ESS-Union-Update-Flyer-10-22-19-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/ESS-Union-Update-Flyer-10-22-19-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally have a voice!&nbsp; Now that we have a union, ESS has to bargain with us before making any changes in our wages, hours, or working conditions, including any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}