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https://labornotes.org/2020/01/how-we-organized-oakland-teachers-strike

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How We Organized The Oakland Teachers Strike

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We organized a seven-day strike last February and March that united 3,000 Oakland public school educators with parents and community against a billionaire-backed school board. By striking, we forced our boss to double the compensation offer, take all concessions off the table, and admit that privati…

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Our team will be there early this Friday. The neutral says they will have the report back to us by March 24th, but he has until the 28th. That report will affect our strike timeline. After we get it, we are strike legal. Consult the strike FAQ's if you have a question, then reach out to Reps and we can ask MDEA.

At this point 80% of our members have voted. Some members can't find the link, so check spam or contact tanisha buggs. Votes due by 4pm tomorrow.

Press conference will be given on Wednesday to report the results to the whole community.

Fact Finding Members:
Darryl Hemingway, Bargaining Specialist of CTA
Dulsemeaya, District Attorney
David Hampshire, Neutral appointed by state, PERB

Other unions can do a sympathy strike as a union, or individually.

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Layoffs:
School Board approved a PKS resolution, eliminating more than 70 FTE from MDEA's bargaining unit. We anticipate tomorrow dozens of our members to get RIF notices, (pink slips or layoff notices). The law requires notice to be given by 3/15. The March 15th is a premlinary date.  Final notice must be given by May 15th.

If members get a pink slip, they need to contact MDEA. They have a legal right to a hearing to make sure they should have been on the list. It also ensures the district has considered every job that the person is credentialed to teach. MDEA will be preparing and sending out a packet to everyone who gets a notice. They get legal respresentation to represent our cases. Every one of our members is entitled to participate in that. If a member gets a notice, be supportive of them, because it's tough. On May 15th, the district will issue final notices. Things may happen between now and then. The district may pull their head out of the ground and rescind those notices. If they rescind before 5/15 or by the end of the school year, they never lost their job. Friday, June 3rd, can apply for unemployment.

2 Release days are allowed to go and look for a job somewhere else.

Notice will arrive by certified mail.

A non-reelect can only be given to a prob 1 (by 6/30) or a prob 2 (by 3/15). Temp employees just get a notice that ends the position. A non -reelect does not carry rehire rights. RIF notices do get these rights.

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Covered by Article 5 in the contract and a recent MOU. It has been shared through a constant contact message. An involuntary transfer can only happen for a limited number of reasons.

-Fewer positions at the site
-Must happen according to Seniority
-Notice of Involuntary Transfer will go out to the person along with a list of known vacancies. They can select from the list. If you don't get a job from the list, you are "unassigned" and FTE stays the same. District is required to pay you and to find you another job.

Timeline pushed back from March to end of April, early May. Done because the district will better know what we need later, and it will be more useful rather than a waste of time.

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We need as many people at the Dent Center on March 18th as possible as we picket from 3:30-4:30pm.

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He expressed the importance of understanding our message and to make sure we keep the communication very open about what is happening in bargaining, from MDEA and not from the district.

OEA striked for 6 days. They had a lot of community support and that really helped.

Use the community groups to hold community meetings, any clubs or faith organizations that members belong to for community support.

Make the picket lines active and fun, music, singing, chatting, enjoying yourselves.

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Try to get the community on our side, knowing what's going on and what we're asking for.

Thursday night at 7pm is the next one.

https://www.ourmdea.org/community-information

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Employees in our district are losing buying power every year we go without an increase. Prices increased by 2.4% in 2018, 1.8% in 2019, 2.3% in 2020, and are projected to increase by 6.2% in 2021. Compounded, prices have increased by almost 9% in the last four years.

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Craig Yen, Valle Verde Teacher & Gabriella Landeros, CTA Communications Department

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Craig Yen, Valle Verde Teacher & Gabriella Landeros, CTA Communications Department

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Gabriella will be going through our message frame, staying on it, and will be at Media training on Tuesday.

Assume that once you're in a picket line, you have the potential of being in the media. Be aware of that for minors.

These are our 3 main talking points during the strike:
Investing in Student Learning
Lower Class Sizes
Value Employees

Repeated messaging and sticking to our talking points, that's how we are going to win!

Craig - include our hashtags when you share our actions (ie pictures of our events).
#WeAreMDEA
#WeAreCTA

If people are not comfortable being on camera, please don't include them.