* If a district decides on submitting an alternative approach, the district must conduct a «committee process,» which shall include representatives
of local bargaining unit (s) and superintendent representatives.
Under the 2003 law, charter teachers are part
of the local bargaining unit, and all schools must abide by a contract that is negotiated between the school system and the teachers union.
When the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) speaks, it speaks for
all of its local bargaining units.
Not exact matches
Washington — A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the right
of a
local teachers» union to charge members
of the
bargaining unit who do not belong to the union for some activities that are not directly tied to labor negotiations.
The
local chapter
of the AFT was even more direct, telling her that they would not support any bill that allowed charter schools to «contract out teaching services to agencies or groups which are not part
of the teachers»
bargaining unit» (pg.
Perhaps, if the state government or the
local school district were forcing the CTA to be the exclusive representative
of all
bargaining -
unit workers.
Between 15 percent and 25 percent
of charter schools cited each
of the following difficulties, (listed with the difficulties receiving the highest percentage first): state or
local board opposition, state education agency resistance or regulation, internal conflicts or
local education agency resistance or regulation, or union or
bargaining unit resistance.
While state governments have had a heavy hand in teacher preparation, licensure, and certification policy for over a century (American Association
of Colleges
of Teacher Education, 1990; Hawley, 1990), states have traditionally delegated teacher tenure and evaluation policy to localities, often in conjunction with
local collective
bargaining units (Ballou, 2000; Cohen - Vogel & Osborne - Lampkin, 2007; Hannaway & Rotherham, 2006; Hungerford & Blom, 2014; Strunk, 2012).
The provisions
of the new law won't take effect for
local units of government until their employee collective
bargaining agreements expire.
(F) The provisions
of sections 10 - 153a to 10 - 153n, inclusive, [which are the state's collective
bargaining laws] shall not apply to any teacher or administrator who is assigned to a commissioner's network school, except (i) that such teacher or administrator shall, for the purposes
of ratification
of an agreement only, be permitted to vote as a member
of the teacher or administrator
bargaining unit, as appropriate, for the
local or regional board
of education in which the commissioner's network school is located, and (ii) insofar as any such provisions protect any entitlement
of such teacher or administrator to benefits or leave accumulated or accrued prior to the teacher or administrator being employed in a commissioner's network school.
(i)(1) Not more than 120 charter schools shall be allowed to operate in the commonwealth at any time, excluding those approved pursuant to paragraph (3); provided, however, that
of the 120 charter schools, not more than 48 shall be Horace Mann charter schools; provided, however, notwithstanding subsection (c) the 14 new Horace Mann charter schools shall not be subject to the requirement
of an agreement with the
local collective
bargaining unit prior to board approval; provided, further, that after the charter for these 14 new Horace Mann charter schools have been granted by the board, the schools shall develop a memorandum
of understanding with the school committee and the
local union regarding any waivers to applicable collective
bargaining agreements; provided, further, that if an agreement is not reached on the memorandum
of understanding at least 30 days before the scheduled opening
of the school, the charter school shall operate under the terms
of its charter until an agreement is reached; provided, further, that not less 4
of the new Horace Mann charter schools shall be located in a municipality with more than 500,000 residents; and not more than 72 shall be commonwealth charter schools.
The board shall develop procedures and guidelines for revocation and renewal
of a school's charter; provided, however, that a charter for a Horace Mann charter school shall not be renewed by the board without a majority vote
of the school committee and
local collective
bargaining unit in the district where said charter school is located; provided, however, that a commonwealth charter shall not be renewed unless the board
of trustees
of the charter school has documented in a manner approved by the board that said commonwealth charter school has provided models for replication and best practices to the commissioner and to other public schools in the district where the charter school is located.
A Horace Mann charter school shall be a public school or part
of a public school operated under a charter approved by the school committee and the
local collective
bargaining unit in the district in which the school is located; provided that all charters shall be granted by the board
of elementary and secondary education.
(t) Horace Mann charter schools shall be exempt from
local collective
bargaining agreements to the extent provided by the terms
of its charter; provided, however, that employees
of the Horace Mann charter school shall continue to be members
of the
local collective
bargaining unit and shall accrue seniority and shall receive, at a minimum, the salary and benefits established in the contract
of the
local collective
bargaining unit where the Horace Mann charter school is located.
Right now, under California state law,
local bargaining units are prohibited from negotiating the terms
of their dismissal process.
For those charter schools that have collective
bargaining units, some adapt the agreement
of the
local authorizer, while others negotiate separate agreements with employee groups.
(2) If a parent trade union is the
bargaining agent for employees described in subsection (1), each
of its
local trade unions is deemed to be
bargaining agent, together with the parent trade union, for employees in the
bargaining unit within the jurisdiction
of the
local trade union.
In Suncor Energy Inc v Unifor
Local 707A, 2017 ABCA 313, the Court upheld the lower court's finding that an arbitration board erred in rejecting much
of the employer's evidence
of safety incidents and risks on the basis that the evidence was either related to non-union employees or not particularized to
bargaining unit employees.