Wissahickon teacher contract negotiations

By tcel

  • Limited issue bargaining begins

    The Wissahickon School District and the Wissahickon Education Alliance (Professional) begin the negotiations process with limited issue bargaining.

  • Teacher contract expires

    While six months of negotiations producing no deal, the teachers union contract expires June 30, 2010, leaving the union without a contract. Negotiations continue during the summer, with a state-appointed negotiator being brought into the fold.

  • Negotiations continue between Wissahickon, teachers union

    Discussions between the Wissahickon School District and the Wissahickon Education Alliance are ongoing after both sides failed to reach a contract agreement over the summer. The district provided an update on the current state of negotiations at the school board's Aug. 16 meeting. Read more

  • Without contracts, Wissahickon teachers start school year

    School got under way in the Wissahickon School District Aug. 30, with teachers reporting to work still without a contract after eight months of unsuccessful negotiations. Read more

  • Contract negotiations remain at standstill

    The contract negotiations between the Wissahickon School District and the Wissahickon Education Alliance (Professional), the union representing the district's teachers, appear to have hit a standstill, with each side waiting for the other to make the next move. Read more

  • Negotiation session between district, union yields no progress

    The negotiations teams for the Wissahickon School District and the district's teachers' union met Nov. 29 for the first time in more than three months. The effort, however, produced no progress and seems to have only increased frustration between the two parties. Read more

  • District presents three-year contract proposal to union

    The Wissahickon School Board has presented a three-year contract proposal to the district's teachers' union.The district's negotiating team and the team for the Wissahickon Education Alliance (Professional), the union representing the district's teachers, met for a bargaining session Dec. 20, when the district put forth the proposal. Read more

  • District, union disagree on approach to bargaining

    Contract negotiations between the Wissahickon School District and the Wissahickon Education Alliance (Professional), the union for the district's teachers, appear to have hit another serious roadblock. Currently, the two sides' main disagreement involves the approach to negotiating a new contract. Read more

  • Contract negotiations continue to stall

    The district and the Wissahickon Education Alliance (Professional), the union representing the district's teachers, most recently met for approximately two hours Feb. 2. According to sources from both sides, the meeting yielded no progress, as the district awaits a counter proposal from the union, with the union hoping for the district to narrow the scope of negotiations. Read more

  • Union holds meeting with district parents

    The Wissahickon Education Alliance, the union for the district's teachers, held a meeting for parents Feb. 18 to explain the union's position on the ongoing contract negotiations. Read more

  • Wissahickon, union agree to a 'fresh start'

    With contract negotiations at a standstill, both the Wissahickon School District and the teachers union have agreed to a “fresh start.” The two sides finalized plans Feb. 24 for an eight-hour, off-site bargaining session to be held March 12. Read more

  • Community, teachers weight in on negotiations

    Teacher contract negotiations was the topic on everyone's mind at the Wissahickon School Board's Feb. 28 meeting, as community members and teachers expressed a variety of opinions on the issue. Read more

  • Bargainin session fails to produce deal

    While both the Wissahickon School Board and the Wissahickon Education Alliance, the union representing the district’s teachers, had hoped for a successful Saturday, the nine-hour negotiating session March 12 appears to have yielded little progress. Read more

  • District, union reach tentative agreement

    The Wissahickon School District and the teachers union have reached a tentative contract agreement, the school board announced at its March 28 meeting. Read more

  • Wissahickon, union finalize contract

  • District, union finalize contract

    Read moreAfter more than 15 months of negotiations, the Wissahickon School District now has a contract with its teachers union.The Wissahickon School Board voted to ratify a three-year contract with the Wissahickon Education Alliance (Professional), the union representing the district's teachers, at a special meeting April 13 held in the high school auditorium. The union membership previously ratified the contract March 28.