Archive for: Douglas County Federation of Teachers
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Union wins a round in grudge match with DougCo schools
Nancy Mitchell / EdNews Colorado
An arbitrator Monday ruled the Douglas County teachers union does not owe the school district more than $100,000 in back pay for staff members working in the union’s office.
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DougCo teachers union memo goes missing, raises questions
Kyle Forti / Media Trackers
A review of meeting minutes posted on the Douglas county teachers’ union website suggests that the group may have violated its own constitution by altering and then removing a copy of the meeting minutes from its website.
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With union talks stalled, DougCo schools OK own pay plan for teachers
Nancy Mitchell / EdNews Colorado
Douglas County school board members have unanimously approved a pay plan for teachers that mirrored the offer rejected by the district’s teachers union in lengthy public negotiations.
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Douglas County schools, union still at impasse on contract talks
Nancy Mitchell / EdNews Colorado
Thirty minutes into their last-minute negotiating session Thursday, Douglas County school district and union leaders admitted they couldn’t agree on a topic and moved on. They couldn’t agree on the next one either. And it didn’t get any better from there.
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Cuts loom as DougCo schools gird for talks—in public—with teachers union
Nancy Mitchell / EdNews Colorado
Douglas County school district leaders on Tuesday announced plans to cut $18 million from next year’s budget as they prepare for their first public negotiations with teachers’ union leaders.
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Panel kills effort to open up union talks at all school districts
Todd Engdahl / EdNews Colorado
The five members of the Senate State Affairs Committee listened politely to witnesses and then voted 3-2 Wednesday to kill House Bill 12-1118, which would have required that school district collective bargaining sessions be open to the public.
The panel’s three Democrats provided the majority necessary to kill the measure, which had only Republican sponsors and which was opposed by such traditional Democratic allies as the Colorado Education Association.
Hearing testimony mirrored much of what was said last month during a House State Affairs Committee session.
Sponsor Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch…
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Suburban Denver’s DougCo schools open union talks to the public
Nancy Mitchell / EdNews Colorado
Douglas County’s school board on Tuesday unanimously approved opening contract negotiations with its teachers union to the public, with a first session scheduled in April.
School board president John Carson called it an “historic night”…
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Pitfalls abound in bill to allow same-day voter registration
“The unions and other Democratic interests like the same-day voting provision…”
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