NEGOTIATION UPDATES
NEGOTIATION NEWS
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There will be a formal fact finding hearing on March 19, 2013. The TTEA Team is grateful for your support as we continue to negotiate to achieve a worthy settlement. As always...
Yours in unity,
The Negotiation Team
TTEA Negotiation Team Members: Aretha Blake-Arroyo, Sandra Beckford, Loren Daniels, Laurel Friedmann, Kathy Guzman, George Lambert - NJEA UNISERV representative, Thomas Papaleo, Helen Schlereth, Diana Spain - Chairperson, Dr. Maura Tuite - President
Teaneck Bd. of Education Negotiation Team participants have been: Sebastian Rodriguez, Gervonn Rice, Robert Finger, David Gruber, Douglas Kovats - Attorney for the Board, Barbara Pinsak, and Dr. Ardie Walser
TTEA Team met on several occasions, beginning in the Fall of 2010, to create and then process the outcomes of a survey of members, and to review the contract to prepare TTEA's proposals.
1/27/11 - TTEA Team attends NJEA Coordinated Bargaining Council Meeting sponsored by BCEA/NJEA
3/6/11 - TTEA Team attends NJEA Coordinated Bargaining Council Meeting sponsored by BCEA/NJEA
5/10/11 - TTEA Team meets for the first time with the Board of Education's Negotiation Team. (The Board would not meet prior to the election of April/2011.) During this initial meeting the following preliminary steps took place:
Ground rules were presented and established;
Proposals were exchanged;
Scattergrams were discussed;
The next meeting is currently set for July 7, 2011 - both Teams are looking at schedules to determine whether a mutually agreeable earlier date can be agreed upon.
5/12/11 - TTEA Negotiation Team attends Coordinated Bargaining Council Meeting sponsored by BCEA/NJEA
5/18/11 - meeting of TTEA Negotiation Team members
5/19/11 - Members of TTEA Team meet at Bergenfield HS with Wendell Steinhauer, NJEA VP
6/16/11 - members of TTEA Negotiation Team meet
6/22/11 Members of Negotiation Team meet w/Connie Wagner and Robert Gordon in Paramus regarding pending legislation
6/28/11 - TTEA Team meets
7/7/11 (afternoon) - TTEA Team meets
7/7/11 (evening) - TTEA Team meets with Board's Team
August/2011 - TTEA Team members attend NJEA Summer Leadership Conference
9/7/11 - TTEA Team meets
9/8/11 - TTEA Team meets with Board's Team
9/13/11 - TTEA Team meets
10/3/11 - TTEA Team meets with Board's Team
10/11/11 - TTEA Team attends NJEA Coordinated Bargaining Council Meeting sponsored by BCEA/NJEA
10/12/11 - TTEA Team meets w/NJEA Representative
11/711 - TTEA Team meets with Board's Team
11/30/11 - TTEA Team meets
12/6/11 - TTEA Team meets with Board's Team
1/24/12 - TTEA Team meets with Board's Team. Teams reach Impasse. (Mediation is the next step in the process.)
1/26/12 - TTEA Team attends NJEA Coordinated Bargaining Council Meeting sponsored by BCEA/NJEA
3/2/12 - 4pm to 3/3 1:15 pm - TTEA Team attends NJEA Leadership Conference in East Brunswick
3/21/12 - TTEA Team attends Coordinated Bargaining Council Meeting at the Marriott sponsored by BCEA/NJEA.
3/29/12 - Negotiation Teams meet with Mediator (1st mtg)
5/8/12 - TTEA Team attends Coordinated Bargaining Council Meeting sponsored by BCEA/NJEA.
5/23/12 - Negotiation Teams meet with Mediator (second mtg)
6/7/12 - Negotiation Team leads GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING.
8/22/12 - Members of Negotiation Team Meet
8/28/12 - Negotiation Team meets
9/12/12 - TTEA Negotiation Team leads GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING.
11/13/12 - GENERAL MEMBERSHIP WORKSHOP MEETING - Contract Negotiations presentation by Research and Salary Guides specialist of NJEA (includes dinner) at Marriott
12/03/12 - Both Teams meet with Fact Finder
1/24/13 - TTEA Team attends NJEA Coordinated Bargaining Council Meeting sponsored by BCEA/NJEA
2/12/13 - TTEA Negotiators meet with NJEA Research Specialist and Field Representatives
3/19/13 - Fact Finding hearing