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FUSD Offers Teachers 11% Pay Raise over 3 Years in First Contract Proposal

Fresno Unified School District's first contract proposal presented Thursday to the Fresno Teachers Association includes an 11% salary increase over the next three years that would be contingent on state funding. The district had previously agreed to pay 100% of health care premiums for individuals. Families of three or larger...

FUSD Offers Teachers 11% Pay Raise over 3 Years in First Contract Proposal

Fresno Unified School District's first contract proposal presented Thursday to the Fresno Teachers Association includes an 11% salary increase over the next three years that would be contingent on state funding. The district had previously agreed to pay 100% of health care premiums for individuals. Families of three or larger...

Fresno Teachers Tell Union: If No Contract by Sept. 29, Call A Strike Authorization Vote

Fresno Teachers Association leaders spelled out their frustrations with ongoing contract negations with Fresno Unified and then asked teachers to show their support for a strike authorization vote in October if there is no agreement by Sept. 29. Hundreds of educators, nearly all clad in bright blue T-shirts, raised their...

Downtown Fresno Street Closing at Noon for Teachers Rally

N Street between Tulare and Mariposa streets in downtown Fresno will be closed starting at noon Wednesday after the Fresno Teachers Association received a permit from City Hall authorizing the closure, a city official said. The closure is scheduled to remain in effect until 8 p.m., the official said. N...

Fresno Teachers Seek 27% Raises, $27,500 Bonuses, COLAs & Other Perks Over 4 Years

A wide chasm still remains between what the Fresno Teachers Association want in their new contract and what Fresno Unified is willing to provide, even as the clock on the current contract is winding down. According to a document supplied to GV Wire by a district official, the teachers union...

Fresno Schools May Lose Social Workers Over Teachers Union Complaint

Students at some Fresno Unified high schools could have fewer social workers on hand next year to help them with their social and emotional problems after the teachers union raised an objection because the workers were hired by contract and not directly by the district. The issue arose during the...

FUSD Says Teachers Are Mulling Strike Authorization Vote. FTA Says They Aren’t.

Fresno Unified School District says the teachers union is not only veering from an agreed-upon method of contract negotiation but also is considering a strike authorization vote. "Fresno Unified has received information that leads one to believe FTA plans to take a Strike Authorization Vote amongst their membership on Tuesday,...

Fresno School Board Inks Contract with SEIU. Teachers Unhappy with Their Contract Talks.

The Fresno Unified School Board needed no discussion and mere minutes Wednesday night to approve a new three-year contract with the Service Employees International Union that represents the district's "blue collar" workers. Meanwhile, teachers whose union also is negotiating a new contract had spent 45 minutes earlier Wednesday telling the...

Fresno Teachers Call District’s Contract Details ‘Disappointing’

More than 100 Fresno Teachers Association members crowded the Fresno Unified Board of Trustees boardroom Wednesday afternoon to tell trustees that the district's initial contract proposals won't solve the challenge of raising student performance. "Expanding the failing aspects of the status quo is not acceptable," union president Manuel Bonilla, the...

Fresno Teachers, District Gear Up for What Could Be Tough Contract Talks

  Fresno's teachers union has already started to position itself in preparation for contract talks. If recent events are any indication, negotiations this time around may not be as cordial as last time. Fresno Teachers Association attempted to turn up the heat on the district last week with a news...

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