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2012 Legislative session: WHAT WAS AT RISK?

2012 Legislative session: WHAT WAS AT RISK?. Collective bargaining rights and working conditions Health Insurance Takeover Evaluation— State imposed model- no right to bargain, punitive rather than improvement model, used for RIF, principals control all staffing decisions

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2012 Legislative session: WHAT WAS AT RISK?

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  1. 2012 Legislative session: WHAT WAS AT RISK? Collective bargaining rights and working conditions Health Insurance Takeover Evaluation— State imposed model- no right to bargain, punitive rather than improvement model, used for RIF, principals control all staffing decisions K-12 and Higher Ed budget cuts Shortened school year Cutting levy equalization Loss of COLA and I-728 (did lose 728) Charter Schools National Board stipend Underfunding retirement system

  2. YOUR WILLINGNESS TO ACT COLLECTIVELY MADE THE DIFFERENCE! 800 WEA members lobbied in Olympia 66,045 e-mails to legislators about health care takeover 4,000 members statewide participating in local rallies 8,522 members visited the www.ourvoicewashingtonea.org webpage the last day of the legislative session 100 Riverside members lobbied in Olympia!! 1/8th ! Riverside members sent 1,000postcards written at the March 19 rally, along with hundreds of others sent individually by members. Riverside members placed numerous phone calls to their legislators.

  3. 2012-13WHAT’S AT RISK • Depending on the outcome of the Governor’s race: YOUR BARGAINING RIGHTS and your voice in public education • Unless we assure certain House members’ re-election: YOUR BARGAINING RIGHTS and your voice in public education • All of the above!

  4. WE ARE NOT ALONE What can we learn from other states? Candidate Scott Walker (Wisconsin) did not campaign to take away collective bargaining rights. Candidate Scott Walker supporters (Koch brothers, Republican Governor Association, Citizens United) out spent his opponent 3 to 1. Governor Walker swiftly moved to repeal all bargaining rights for school employees and made it more difficult to maintain a union

  5. WHAT DO WE HAVE? 82,000 members We are the face of our education profession in every community throughout the state 1 in every 81 Washington residents 1 in every 44 registered voters We have friends, family, and neighbors who respect our judgment more than doctors, lawyers, politicians, etc.

  6. How YOU can help…

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