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PRESIDENTS' CONFERENCE
Session 1
Bargaining Virtual
Learning Language
Rich and I decided to create a forum to share information with you in between Rep Council
Compensation
meetings, so periodically we will send out a newsletter such as this one.
Awareness
We have been busy so far this year attending district, region, and state meetings. Over the last
weekend in October, we attended the Local Presidents/Collective Bargaining Conference in
Hershey, PA. It is important to us that we share what we learn with all of you, so in addition to
some local reminders, we will include what we learned at this conference.
As always, thank you for giving us your trust. We will work hard every day to continually earn it.
Enjoy the newsletter, and contact us at vickitruchan@gmail.com or riker150@gmail.com if you
have any questions or comments.
Session 3
In Unity, Salary Schedule
Vicki & Rich Repair
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Take-Aways from
Collective Bargaining
Conference in Hershey
Session 1: Bargaining Virtual Learning
Language (Vicki & Rich)
‣ We learned that districts were (and are) allowed
to have us teach virtually due to PA School Code
702. This is part of managerial rights.
Session 2: ADA and FMLA (Vicki)
‣ The district must provide professional
development to prepare to teach in this manner. ‣ ADA
IMPORTANT REMINDERS!
• If you ever witness anything that needs to be reported to Child-line, please do NOT just
tell your administrator and expect that he or she will take care of it. Legally, you are a
mandated reporter and MUST report the incident yourself. Feel free to contact an
association leader to help you with this. Read more from PSEA HERE about this subject.
• If you are ever hurt at work (whether through an accident or purposeful injury by
another party), you need to go and see your school nurse so that the injury is
documented. Please reach out to an association leader as well so that someone is aware.
• Please register for our website! You can find many resources and important documents
on our site, which can be found HERE.
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Take-Aways from
Collective Bargaining
Conference in Hershey
Session 2: ADA and FMLA (Vicki)
‣ ADA (con’t from previous page)
‣ Military service
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Take-Aways from
Collective Bargaining
Conference in Hershey
Session 3: Salary Scale Repair (Vicki &
Rich)
‣ The goal of a salary schedule is to get the price of teaching
to re ect the value of teaching and to get all teachers who
have mastered their profession to be paid the price of
teaching
‣ Salaries scales are better at beating in ation over a career ‣ Bump steps result in high incremental costs
than just getting a COLA (cost of living adjustment) raise ‣ Incremental cost is the amount to move from one step to the
next
‣ High incremental costs make it dif cult to give on-step raises
‣ Many salary scale xes take multiple contracts and some
sacri ce from members.
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