After months of tough negotiating and vigorous organizing, agreement was reached with the district in August on the second half of our contract negotiations.  Two weeks ago, the Lennox Teachers Association Representative Council approved moving the Tentative Agreement forward for a vote of the full membership, and after three days of voting, tonight, I am pleased to announce that the Part 2 Tentative Agreement has passed.  We are now one step away from being done bargaining (until November, at least).  The next and final step is for the Board to approve the TA, which they are scheduled to do at the next Board meeting on Tuesday, Sept 25.

So what’s next?  Like the rest of CTA, our efforts for the next few months will focus on getting Prop 30 passed and Prop 32 defeated.  And then, in November, we start looking at district finances again.  If Prop 30 passes,  we begin looking at the district’s budget in preparation for “re-openers” in January.  And if it fails, we begin negotiating in November for further compensation cuts in 2013-2014.  But nobody wants that.  So we are going to build on the momentum we built up in our spring and summer negotiations/organizing and roar into the fall election campaign, doing everything we can to get Prop 30 passed.

Thanks everyone, from the Bargaining Team to the Organizing Team, from the site reps and volunteers who counted votes today to everyone who voted.  Thanks.