The Berkeley schools Board of Education meets tonight (Wednesday, Oct. 22) for a closed session at 6 p.m., followed by its regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Follow along via the Oct. 22 agenda packet. The board is scheduled to approve a contract for a staff union that has been under negotiation for three years. The board will also approve […]
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After 3 years of negotiations, Berkeley school district and union reach tentative agreement
A fact-finding panel brought in to assist with talks between the Berkeley Unified School District and one of its unions finally led to a contract breakthrough – after three years of negotiations. The district and the Berkeley Council of Classified Employees, which represents 590 employees, hammered out the details of an agreement on Wednesday. “We entered […]
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Mediation between school district, staff union fizzles
After failing to agree on a new contract despite three years of talking, the Berkeley Unified School District and a union representing 570 Berkeley school employees will now turn negotiations over to a fact-finding panel. A mediator that has been working with BUSD and the Berkeley Council of Classified Employees union (BCCE) since February decided […]
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Chanting protesters shut down school board meeting
Nearly 200 union workers from the Berkeley schools shut down the school board meeting temporarily Wednesday night. The group declined to stop their impassioned chanting, forcing the board members to go into closed session for about 15 minutes. (The video, above, by Mary Flaherty, shows members leaving their posts.) District spokesman Mark Coplan said he’d never seen a Berkeley school […]
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Berkeley school employees demonstrate for new contract
Around 100 Berkeley Unified School District employees — including instructional assistants, school secretaries, custodians, bus drivers, and some of their children — held a rally and demonstrated on the afternoon of Friday March 28 in front of BUSD’s headquarters at 2020 Bonar St. The demonstrators, members the Berkeley Council of Classified Employees (BCCE) which represents 570 […]
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Berkeley teachers plan Sacramento rally
Berkeley teacher and school employee unions are hoping to take at least 10 bus loads of protesters to rally in Sacramento on Wednesday, April 21. The rally on the capitol lawn is expected to draw thousands of protesters from across the state, urging the reinstatement of the $2.5 billion in additional educational cuts announced for […]