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Please fill out our RTA Reopening Survey and mark your calendars for our RTA zoom meeting to plan our “Crisis Action Teams” about returning to school on Tuesday, July 28, 4:00-5:30. Invite to come.
Many of us are participating in the six district committees for reopening schools, developing the plans to be submitted to DESE. This is important work and we should try to influence the district’s process and plans to the greatest degree possible. But these are employer committees. We need to be clear that just because union officers and members are on those committees does not imply union endorsement of the committees’ processes or final plans. Most importantly, the RTA is reserving its rights (and will exercise its rights) to negotiate over all the reopening plans.
Stress levels are understandably extremely high. RTA officers and some members have been attending ongoing meetings with union presidents from all over the state to coordinate reopening plans, obtain health and safety guidance for bargaining proposals and caucus regarding the state level bargaining with DESE. In the next couple of weeks, our union, both state and local, will be trying to answer the questions “What does safe look like? How will we know it is safe? When will it be safe?” Members will ultimately decide the answers to these questions with our organizing throughout the bargaining process, such as working on RTA committees, drafting bargaining proposals, caucusing during bargaining, and more.
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