Thursday, October 18, 2012
Teachers will make up six of the eight strike days, district to forfeit two, state-required student attendance days.
The Evergreen Park Dist. 124 school board ratified the hard-fought teachers contract after more than a half-year of fruitless bargaining and an eight-day work stoppage that disrupted the education of 1,800 elementary school students. Sign up for the Evergreen Park Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Before board members voted on the four-year contract, there were harsh words from both sides of the spectrum at Wednesday’s special school board meeting at Central Junior High School. Students returned back to school on Monday. “I wanted to tell you how immensely disappointed I was in the board during negotiations the last two weeks,” Liz Gorman, the mother of eighth-grade triplets said during public comments. Gorman chastised the school…
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Friday, October 12, 2012
The Evergreen Park teachers' strike has ended after nine days.
Previously: The Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers and D124 school board bargaining teams spent most of Wednesday’s nine-hour negotiation session quibbling over the introductory “what if” language in the union’s retirement package should changes be made to the state-run Teachers Retirement System. Subscribe to Evergreen Park Patch's newsletter and breaking news alerts. The Illinois General Assembly is poised to vote during next month’s fall veto session on whether the state should put its agreed upon contribution to the state's teachers pension fund back on local school districts. TRS maintains the state's unfunded pension liability is $44 billion. Teachers and paraprofessionals from the district’s five public grammar schools say that …
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
The Evergreen Park teachers union and D124 school board ended Wednesday's bargaining session with no deal. Talks set to resume Thursday.
After a cold day on the picket line on Wednesday, the Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers bargaining team went off into another negotiation session with Dist. 124 school board in attempt to end the week-old teachers strike. Sign up for Evergreen Park breaking news alerts. Both sides entered contract talks at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and negotiated until 2:30 a.m. Thursday. A message on the Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers Facebook page said that the school board called off negotiations for the night. Contract talks will resume again at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Before the union went back into a huddle with school board members, parents held a press conference in front of Central Junior High School, demanding answers from the school board. The …
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Monday, October 8, 2012
D124 school board calls union's counteroffer "regressive" after Sunday negotiating session.
The Evergreen Park teachers union and Dist. 124 school board met on Sunday but were unable to settle on a new contract that would get students back in school on Tuesday, sending the teachers strike into a second week. Sign up for Evergreen Park's newsletter and breaking news alerts. After a marathon negotiation session that broke up early Saturday morning, the Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers' bargaining team presented a counter offer to school board members. Illinois Federation of Teachers field director Deneen Pajeau said the union team arrived at Central Junior High School on Sunday morning fully expecting a proposal from the school board. “[The school board was] supposed to come back today with a counteroffer or accepting our …
A teacher pens a letter to her former teachers in Evergreen Park Dist. 124.
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Monday, October 8, 2012
A story: There once was a 6-year-old who went to school, pretty unwillingly. How could anyone want to leave home to go to school all day? Well, it didn’t take long for that 6-year-old to change her mind. She actually liked going to school. Her teachers taught her to love to read. Her teachers taught her to be fascinated by the world, its people and many... cultures. But most importantly, her teachers taught her respect and to always stick up for what is right. Thank you for continuing to be an example of respect. Thank you for continuing to stick up for what is right. Most of all, thank you for sticking up for your students, their education, and the entire village of Evergreen Park. Even though you are out of the classroom, you continue …
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Has your opinion changed of the Evergreen Park teachers strike? Take the poll, then tell us why or why not in the comments.
The Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers and the Dist. 124 Board of Education continue to negotiate for a new teachers contract. The bargaining sessions have reached a fervid pitch, especially with all of the picket-line-dancing and horn-honking on 95th Street. The union says that it only wishes to maintain the current benefits and salary increase schedule—around 3 percent over the next four years--from the last contract, which expired in June. Sign up for the Evergreen Park Patch newsletter and follow us on Facebook. The D124 school board wants teachers to contribute to a Health Savings Account to cover their health care costs, in addition to PPO and HMO options. Teachers and staff would also be required to kick in more to their monthly …
Contract talks ended early Saturday after nine hours of negotiation. Evergreen Park teachers union and D124 school board set to resume talks on Sunday.
The Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers and D124 school board couldn't close a deal for a new teachers contract after a marathon barganing session to end a four-day-old teachers strike. Subscribe to Evergreen Park Patch breaking news alerts. Both sides negotiated over nine hours beginning Friday evening and finishing up around 3:15 a.m. Saturday. After a tense negotiating session on Wednesday, in which the union bargaining team claimed they were verbally attacked by the school board's attorney, teachers and board members have been meeting in separate rooms, passing proposals back and forth through a federal mediator. Another round of contract talks will resume at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Teachers and paraprofessionals from Evergreen Park's …
Friday, October 5, 2012
The Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers is hosting a community forum regarding ongoing contract negotiations on Monday, Oct. 8. Contrary to an earlier release, the D124 school board won't be involved.
Update - 5:45 p.m. Contraditicing a community forum release from the Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers, the Dist. 124 Board of Education won't be attending Monday's community forum at American Legion Post 854 on Monday. Sign up for Evergreen Park Patch breaking news alerts. Teachers and paraprofessionals from the district's five public grammar schools have been on strike since Tuesday. The Evergreen Park teachers union and D124 school board are attempting to reach a final agreement on a new teachers' contract. D124 Superintendent Dr. Robert Machak said that both he and school board memembers were both disappointed by Illinois Federation of Teachers field services director Deneen Pajeau's invitation to the community forum prior to …
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No school for D124 students on Friday. Talks will resume at 6 p.m. tonight as teachers strike moves into fourth day.
Energized by the alleged tongue-lashing they received from the Dist. 124 school board attorney just hours before, the Evergreen Park teachers union walked the picket line for a third day in a row. The striking teachers and paraprofessionals from the Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers strutted, danced, chanted and circled Central Junior High School banging on plastic buckets and blasting a generator-powered amplifier system with the union’s theme songs—Bachman Turner Overdrive’s “Taking Care of Business,” the Pointer Sisters’ “We Are Family” and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.” The school district board and union negotiating team resumed their talks at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Central Junior High School. The teachers union’s negotiating …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Meeting starts off acrimoniously when union team claims D124 school board's attorney verbally attacked, teachers claim. Another round of contract talks scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
Evergreen Park elementary school teachers and professionals will head back to the picket line on Thursday, after contract talks broke up in the early morning hours following nine hours of deliberation. Members of the Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers bargaining team met at Village Hall for a hastily called face-to-face sitdown by the D124 school board to discuss insurance—a major sticking point in contract talks. The teachers and paraprofessionals from Dist. 124's five public grammar schools have been on strike since Tuesday. Sign up for Evergreen Park breaking news alerts for the latest strike coverage. While some progress was made, the talks left a mark after the union’s bargaining team alleged that D124 school board attorney, Alan …
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