School District Releases Contract Negotiation Details; Union Objects
By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR
After several weeks in which both sides maintained silence about contract mediation, the Berkeley Unified School District abruptly changed tactics this week, providing partial information on its latest offer to the Berkeley Federation of Teachers in an e-mail news release.
BFT officials immediately labeled the district’s decision to go public “counterproductive and dangerous.”
The exchange of public statements came a day after district and union representatives held a Tuesday bargaining session in their two-year-old contract dispute, and as teachers entered their third week of a “work to rule” job action.
Negotiations are being conducted through a state-appointed mediator. Berkeley teachers have been working under their old contract since it expired two years ago. <snip>
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=03-18-05&storyID=20961
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