Tuesday, November 20, 2012
District 158 board schedules meeting Tuesday to vote on the contract. Huntley Education Association approved the contract Monday.
UPDATED TUESDAY, NOV. 20, 10:25 P.M.: The District 158 Board of Education and the Huntley Education Association will undoubtedly be thankful contract negotiations have ended. District 158 BOE voted Tuesday night to ratify a three-year contract with HEA, which gives its members a 3.5 percent increase each year, according to a press release issued late Tuesday. HEA members voted on Monday to ratify the contract. ___________________ The Huntley Education Association membership voted Monday, by 98 percent, to ratify a negotiated contract agreement. Now, the District 158 Board of Education must approve it. A special meeting will be held Tuesday for the BOE to vote on the contract, HEA spokesman Julie McLaughlin said. The HEA would not …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The Huntley Education Association members expected to vote on tentative contract agreement on Nov. 19.
Update: The Huntley Education Association and the District 158 school board reached a tentative contract agreement that union members will vote on at a Nov. 19 meeting, according to a joint press release issued early Wednesday. "The details are being withheld until the Huntley Education Association members have an opportunity to vote on the agreement," according to the release. ____________ The Huntley Education Association has declared an impasse bringing teachers in District 158 one step closer to a strike, according to a District 158 press release. The district's teachers' union was expected to meet with the District 158 school board Tuesday night to continue working toward an agreement in contract negotiations. The union voted in …
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Board of Education questions effectiveness of Huntley Education Association’s negotiating team as union disputes the board's take on negotiations. No word on when or if strike will occur.
Updated Oct. 21, 2012: The Huntley Education Association officials are calling the District 158's Board of Education statement that a “second tentative agreement was reached at the negotiations table is patently false and can only be construed as an intentional misstatement by the BOE,” according to a release issued by Julie McLaughlin, president of HEA. “Realizing that the repeated failure of the BOE to address the concerns of educators was leading nowhere, the bargaining team took the BOE's most recent offer (not agreed to in any way) to the membership prior to requesting a strike authorization vote,” the release stated. “Our goal was to ensure that all members had the opportunity to express themselves through a democratic secret ballot…
Friday, September 14, 2012
Union members reject negotiated contract but head of union doesn’t anticipate a strike.
Consolidated School District 158 and the Huntley Education Association will be starting up negotiations again but both sides have been working amicably so a strike is not anticipated, the union’s president said Thursday. Negotiating teams from both sides reached a tentative agreement on Sept. 5 for a new contract but union membership rejected the contract. The HEA has approximately 625 members including teachers, social workers, speech pathologist and other certified District 158 staff. Teachers and certified staff have been working without a contract since June 30, said Julie McLaughlin, President of HEA. No meeting is set but she hopes to have one set by next week, she said. “We hope to have this resolved soon,” she said. “The district …
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