OEA Negotiations Update - Nov 3, 2017

Orcutt Educators Association 2017-18 proposals side-by-side with OUSD proposals. The District offered its proposals as a package deal; none of the individual proposals from the District can be accepted on its own.  As of November 3, 2017, OEA has rejected the District’s package proposal. Our next bargaining sessions are scheduled for November 13^th & 30^th. (An earlier version of this chart had an error in the description of the OEA Early Retirement Proposal.)

Issue	OUSD	OEA
Compensation	½ % on-schedule increase in exchange for loss of 6 report card release days for TK-6 teachers; off-schedule, one-time payment of $640 to all full-time members	Salary Schedule adjustment that costs about 1.6% on-schedule and about 1% off-schedule
Special Education	No proposal	Compensation for IEP meetings outside of the contractual work day.
Health and Welfare Benefits	No proposal	Continued 100% of 90-D for singles, 80% for two-party and family; reimbursement of $ difference for members who switched to a less costly plan
Class size	Increase TK-3 class size site average from 27 to 29 students	Current 3-year MOU in place that keeps average at 27
Child Bonding Leave	A new contract section that complies with new state law.	Counterproposal in process
Stipends	New stipends rejected; connecting stipends to salary schedule rejected.	Connect stipends to salary schedule and add stipends for Math Bowl, Battle of the Books, Flag Football and Elementary Student Council Advisor.
Early Retirement (offered by OUSD ONLY if all other proposals are accepted).	$20,000 OR an additional year of Health and Welfare Benefits (total of 6) IF there are at least 15 eligible retirements announced by Feb. 1, 2018	If 11 eligible retirements: $25,000 payment; 8 eligible retirements: $20,000 or one year of health and welfare benefits; five eligible retirements: six additional months of health, dental and vision coverage. (None of these would require additional days of work.)
Salary Schedule Appendix B2, paragraph 5	Increase the number of years of outside experience from 5 to 10 years for new hires only	No Proposal thus far.