November 8, 2022 After four hours of negotiations, we were unfortunately unable to reach an agreement with the district around the school consolidation process last night. DCTA Bargaining Team members and staff have spent many hours listening to educators at the schools that will likely be...
Read MoreThe DCTA bargaining team began negotiating with the district yesterday at 9 a.m. and continued negotiations for 24 hours, past the contract expiration deadline. After a great deal of collaboration and extremely hard work, the DCTA bargaining team was able to reach a Tentative Agreement...
Read MoreThe DCTA bargaining team negotiated with the district for three days last week. Conversations were centered around evaluations, educator voice, class sizes, caseloads, workloads, compensation and grievance procedure. Some contract articles were discussed through the interest based bargaining process however, our team determined that a...
Read MoreThe DCTA bargaining team negotiated with the district for five hours last night. Conversations were fully centered around compensation including a cost of living adjustment, step increases, extra duty pay, incentive pay/stipends and the overall salary schedule. We utilized the interest based bargaining (IBB) model...
Read MoreThe DCTA bargaining team negotiated with the district for five hours last night. Conversations were centered around evaluations, educator voice, class sizes, caseloads, workloads and planning time. We utilized the interest based bargaining (IBB) model to facilitate today’s conversations (learn about IBB here). Here are some...
Read MoreThe DCTA bargaining team negotiated with the district all day today. We utilized the interest based bargaining (IBB) model to facilitate today’s conversations. The IBB approach is different from traditional bargaining. It is meant to replace traditional positional bargaining with a process of joint problem-solving...
Read MoreLast week, the bargaining team spent two whole days negotiating our master agreement with the district. Conversations were centered around the rights of BIPOC educators, Article 19 and Articles 21-29. We were also joined by researchers at CU Boulder who presented their findings on bias...
Read MoreToday the bargaining team spent several hours negotiating our master contract with the district. We are disappointed in many of the district's proposals and priorities as they do not address the direct needs of our students or educators. Some of the districts proposals from today...
Read MoreThis week, our bargaining team and the district reached a tentative agreement around Innovation and correcting the inherently flawed process that was often used to systematically remove collective bargaining rights from educators. Most of us know that educator rights and innovative learning are not mutually...
Read MoreAfter another marathon bargaining session between the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and DPS on Friday at the Acoma Campus, teachers and SSPs rejected vehemently the proposal DPS made in the last hour of the session, moving them another step closer to a strike. Once again, the teams met publicly to...
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