Issaquah Members Support New Contract

Details of the settlement were released at the ratification meeting and, after several rounds of applause for items related to safety of our staff and students in the classroom, the membership voted to uphold the bargaining team recommendation to pass the contract.

As part of the settlement, wages and health care funding shall be retroactive to September 1, 2007.

A special thanks goes out to the hundreds of members who supported their bargaining team by signing petitions, attending school board meetings, wrote letters to the editors, were interviewed by the press, and walked on picket lines. Without such strong and dynamic membership support the bargaining team would not have been able to bring such a strong contract to the membership to ratify.

If you have any questions or concerns, or would like to thank your bargaining team members, feel free to contact them.

Pat Walker        Chris Svennson
Leslie Smith       Shanna Drake