Sunday, April 3, 2022
MOU Between SCUSD and SEIU April 3 2022
MOU Between SCUSD and SCTA – Substitute Pay & Extra Work
2021-2022 School Year – April 3, 2022
MOU Between SCUSD and SCTA 2019-2022 Successor Contract and COVID
Reopening Schools Negotiations April 3 2022
MOU Between SCUSD and SCTA – Safely Reopening Schools to
In-Person Instruction Services & Independent Study – April 3
2022
MOU Between SCUSD and SCTA Nurse Extra Hours 2021 2022 School
Year
MOU Between SCUSD and SCTA Temporarily Assigning Training
Specialists to Fill Vacant Teaching Positions in the District
3-22-22
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Enhanced Sacramento City Unified School District Proposal to the
Sacramento City Teachers Association 2019-2022 Successor Contract
Negotiations and 2021-2022 COVID and Reopening Negotiations
Monday, March 21, 2022
Sacramento City Unified School District Proposal to the
Sacramento City Teachers Association 2019-2022 Successor Contract
Negotiations and 2021-2022 COVID and Reopening Negotiations
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Report and Recommendation of Fact Finding Panel – PERB Case No
SA-IM-3546-E – Dissent
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Report and Recommendation of Fact Finding Panel – PERB Case No
SA-IM-3546-E
Friday, March 11, 2022
SCUSD Supplemental Information for Fact Finding
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Letter to SCTA Regarding Accurate Communications on Fact
Finding
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Please see this letter which was sent to all SCUSD staff this
evening:
Dear colleagues,
I have heard questions and concerns from many of our school sites
about Sacramento City Teachers Association’s (SCTA) current
efforts to vote for a strike. I know that hearing about a
potential strike and potential disruption to student learning can
be extremely unsettling. In response I am sharing the following
information.
In recognition that teaching and learning during a pandemic has
presented extra challenges, Sac City Unified has tried since last
July to problem solve and reach an agreement with SCTA to address
COVID-related challenges for the 2021-22 school year.
Our goal was to ensure that schools could reopen safely and the
district could provide the best education possible under the
constraints of the pandemic.
The problem-solving proposals that we presented as early as
August 2021 included:
After working for months trying to reach agreement with SCTA on
these matters, the district
sought a declaration of impasse in December 2021 from the
Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). Neutral mediators were
called in to facilitate talks, but after several sessions the
mediators recommended that both parties participate in a Fact
Finding process with the goal of resolving outstanding issues so
an agreement on the COVID-related issues for this school year
could be reached.
In our
impasse
filing
to PERB, we narrowly defined our disagreements as stemming
from COVID and our efforts to reopen our schools and protect
continuity of learning. Since we are now nearly at the last
quarter of our school year, we are still eager to resolve these
outstanding issues in a way that best serves all students.
We are on two separate negotiations tracks. The first is over our
school reopening plans related to COVID-19. The second is over
the full successor contract to our current agreement that lapsed
in July 2019. The district and SCTA have both acknowledged that
we are not at impasse over successor contract negotiations. The
fact finding process we are in has nothing to do with inaccurate
claims about “health benefit takeaways” or “salary freezes” that
SCTA union leadership has used to urge SCTA members to strike.
To be clear, the district did not file for impasse due to
negotiations about a successor contract. As such, the
district cannot impose changes to health benefits and other
matters as a result of the current Fact Finding process
because we are not at impasse over those matters. If SCTA union
leadership leverages the Fact Finding process to include
successor contract issues into the hearing, it will enable SCTA
to bypass further legitimate talks on our broader successor
agreement and disregard the purpose of the impasse process.
A strike will cause chaos for students and
families.
After nearly three school years of interrupted learning due to
COVID-related school closures, illness, and quarantines, it is
unconscionable that SCTA is threatening a strike to shut down our
schools. This is offensive to all of our families that have been
waiting for their children’s school experience to get back to
normal. Taking away students’ access to learning time and the
support services that our schools provide is inappropriate. This
is especially hurtful and harmful to our most vulnerable students
who count on our schools as safe havens, and families who do not
have the luxury of keeping their children unsupervised at home.
Striking employees stand to lose income.
A strike will also hurt our employees because they will lose
wages for every day off the job, thus hurting students, families,
and employees.
A path forward.
While our district works to avoid an unnecessary and detrimental
strike, please be aware that a lot of misleading and false
information is being circulated. Please refer to SCUSD’s Negotiations Updates web page for
accurate information, including proposals and counterproposals
related to COVID-19 and updates about negotiations. I encourage
you to demand and review credible sourced information.
The district remains committed to working through the current
impasse process to reach agreement on COVID-related issues for
the 2021-22 school year. We are also committed to continuing
successor contract negotiations with SCTA and hope to reach an
agreement that is in the best interest of our students, staff,
and community.
Sincerely,
Superintendent Jorge Aguilar
Friday, March 4, 2022
Scope of Issues for Fact-Finding