UC-AFT, UCOP continue talks on job stability, compensation
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The University Council-American Federation of Teachers presented its compensation proposal and answered questions from UC negotiators about its job stability proposal at a bargaining session Jan. 21.
Last Updated January 26, 2021
The University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, presented its compensation proposal and answered questions from UC negotiators about its job stability proposal at a bargaining session Jan. 21.
According to David Walter, a teaching faculty member in the UC Berkeley English department and comparative literature department, the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, and UC-AFT have been bargaining on three main topics: job stability, compensation and workload for almost two years. At the most recent bargaining session, UC-AFT explained its compensation proposal in addition to discussing how to raise the minimum salary and schedule future raises that match with infl
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A West Virginia judge has denied attempts to halt or slow a return to in-person learning for pre-K through 12th grade classrooms across the state.
Kanawha County Judge Carrie Webster denied a temporary restraining order filed by the state’s two largest teacher unions. The unions wanted the court to reverse a recent ruling made by the West Virginia Board of Education that no longer allows fully remote learning in pre-K through 8th grade.
That ruling by the state board also requires high schools to return to in-person instruction unless a county is red on the state’s COVID-19 risk map. Virtual school is still available to all counties and grade levels.
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Schools are still closed. Yes, many school districts have opened their doors, but in most of our big cities and large suburban counties, schoolhouses are empty while the children learn remotely. The COVID-19 vaccine was supposed to open things up again, but teachers unions are doing their best to keep the doors barred.
The West Virginia branch of the American Federation of Teachers announced last week that it will file an injunctive action against the state’s Board of Education, along with several county boards of education, to halt Gov. Jim Justice’s plan to reopen all elementary and middle schools five days a week. The teachers union slammed the plan as “tone deaf” and called it an “incredible overstepping of authority,” even though it is well within the state’s rights to hand down guidance to its public schools and most West Virginia teachers are now eligible for the coronavirus vaccine.
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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he leaves after an event on economic crisis in the State Dining Room of the White House January 22, 2021 in Washington, DC.
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday addressing the climate crisis, including action on green-job creation and preserving 30% of federal land and water by 2030.
Over 150 corporate leaders, climate-focused groups and cultural icons expressed their support for the administration s climate agenda in a letter to Biden.
The climate order will also work to combat the high levels of unemployment brought on by COVID-19.