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DESCRIPTION:10/28 Concord Fair Contract Rally!   Support Mt. Diablo Teachers In Our 
 Fight For Student Resources\n\nSupport Mt. Diablo Teachers In Our Fight For 
 Student Resources\nJoin us for the Fair Contract NOW Rally October 
 28\nhttp://www.ourmdea.org/index.html\n\nFair Contract Now Rally\nMonday, 
 Oct. 28 – 5:30 p.m. \nMDUSD Offices\n1936 Carlotta Drive in Concord, 
 94519. \nWear Blue to Show your support for MDEA!\n \nWhy? Mt. Diablo 
 Unified School District (MDUSD) management is failing to cooperate coming 
 to a fair, student-centered agreement that will provide the resources our 
 students need to succeed and to attract and retain the best educators for 
 our students. We had to file an Unfair Labor Practice Charge to get 
 information in order to settle our contract. Management’s ZERO – 2% 
 proposals are unacceptable and their disregard for our profession, our 
 students, and our schools must stop. Our teaching conditions are the 
 students’ learning conditions. Mt. Diablo teachers deserve a fair 
 contract now!\n \nWhat are the issues?\n\nClass Sizes: Students need 
 smaller class sizes. We are proposing lower class sizes, because current 
 class sizes are TOO LARGE, and this creates unacceptable learning 
 environments and goes against the district’s own plan for personalized 
 instruction.\n \nStudent Supports and Resources: All our students deserve 
 the resources and opportunities they need to succeed, and teachers know 
 best what they need; including nurses, counselors and librarians. The least 
 district management can do is to work with us. Why do we have to fight to 
 get the learning conditions that will help our students succeed?\n \nRetain 
 our Highly Qualified Teachers: Management is not even offering a salary 
 proposal that will keep up with the high Bay Area cost-of-living. Teachers 
 are a student’s most important resource and our district must invest in 
 its educators. Our goal is a reasonable contract that preserves the 
 financial health of our district. We are here to negotiate and to work 
 together for a better MDUSD.\n \nWhat can you do? \n    \nAttend the 
 “Fair Contract Now Rally” on Oct. 28 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at 
 the MDUSD office.\n\nTell MDUSD school board members to direct management 
 to do their job, to provide the information requested by MDEA, and to 
 settle a fair contract now.\n\nFollow our social media accounts, then like 
 and share our posts on social media. We are @OurMDEA on Facebook, Twitter 
 and Instagram. Use the following hashtags to help spread the word. 
 #FairContractNow / #ForOurStudents / #RedForEd / #WeAreMDEA / 
 #OurMDEA\n\n\nThe Community Town Hall Meetings have been rescheduled 
 because we have not received the information we need from the District to 
 properly analyze the financial situation.  We have filed an Unfair Practice 
 Charge with the Public Employee Relations Board based on their failure to 
 meet the deadlines for providing this information.  Please see the press 
 release here for more information.\n​Mt. Diablo Teachers File Unfair 
 Labor Practice Charge\nUnion Wants District Management to Bargain in Good 
 Faith and Agree to a Fair, Student-Centered Contract\nView the Press 
 Release Here\n\nThe Mt. Diablo Education Association (MDEA) today filed 
 legal charges contending the Mt. Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD) is 
 refusing to provide financial information that can help settle a contract 
 that provides a living wage and student resources. \n \nMDEA educators 
 first asked, and now demand, MDUSD provide information that can help settle 
 a contract and to bargain in good faith.\n \n“All of our students deserve 
 the resources and opportunities they need to succeed. And teachers know 
 best what they need. The least this district management can do is to work 
 with us,” said MDEA President Anita Johnson.\n \nThe unfair labor 
 practice charge, which was filed with the California Public Employment 
 Relations Board (PERB), is happening during contentious contract 
 negotiations in which Mt. Diablo teachers insist hefty class sizes and 
 teacher turnover are hurting students. Educators say MDUSD has the ability 
 to do more and, thus far, refuses to. “We want a fair contract for 
 teachers. We’ve bargained in good faith and tried to be as flexible as 
 possible to reach an agreement, while the district continues to withhold 
 viable options for settlement,” Johnson said.\n \n“Teachers are telling 
 us loud and clear – do what’s right, fight to attract and retain 
 quality teachers for our students, and insist public monies intended for 
 the classroom are spent in the classroom,” she added. “Our students 
 deserve better. Our educators deserve better.”\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/22/18827520.php
SUMMARY:Concord Fair Contract Rally! Support Mt. Diablo Teachers & Students
LOCATION:MDUSD Offices\n1936 Carlotta Drive in Concord, 94519. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/22/18827520.php
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