2016 Field Services & Government Relations Report

Doug Nelson, Field Services and Government Relations Director

Quietly Successful Year

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Members

BARGAINING WITH EMPLOYER

Success without much fanfare

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Signs of success

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4.75% average hourly wage rate increase

Unemployment – back to normal but confusing

Added 1,694 new classified employee positions

$42 million financial gains

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4.75% Salary Increase in 2015-16

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Unemployment

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2006 – 2016 Employee Growth

270 added over 7 years4,776 added over

3 years

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Paraeducators - 63% of New Employees

2015-16 Financial Gains - Snapshot

$41.7 million

$14.6 million funding by state

$27.1 million from employers

Nearly doubled state funding

$1,463.20 per member

$512.30 with only state funds

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2015-16 Financial Gains - Summary

Salary - $ 35.2 million

State funded - $11.75 million

Local funding - $23.45 million

Insurance - $5.7 million

State funded - $2.85 million

Other permanent increases - $790,656

One time increases - $88,264 10

2015-16 Financial Gains

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Members

ELECT SUPPORTIVE POLITICAL CANDIDATES

2016 Election

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PSE primary election contributions

45 candidate endorsements

24 democrats

19 republicans

2 non-partisan

$46,800 contributions to candidates

$26,300 (56.2%) Democrat

$16,500 (35.3%) Republican

$4,000 ( 8.5% ) Non partisan14

COPE Goal

2015 – 2016

550 members donating $30,000 per year

Revised mid-year to 1,000 members donating $40,000

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COPE

867 members

$42,852

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LegislatureSenate

25 republicans plus 1 democrat

23 democrats

House

50 democrats

48 republicans

1 democrat replaced with 1 republican17

Primary election results

House

8 races will determine who controls next year

Senate

4 races will determine who controls next year

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November 8

Register to vote

Vote

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2016 SESSION

Fine-tuning

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Member Involvement

Legislative Conference, Jan. 17-18

206 members attended

98 first timers – 71 last year

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Frank J. Warnke Legislative InternsJohn Lohr, Tumwater groundskeeper

Heather Gunderson, Bethel bus driver

Showshana Steen, Evergreen bus driver

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64 Blog Entries

Keeping members informed during session

http://pseclassified.org/category/2016-legislative-session/

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2016 SESSION

So how did we do?

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Higher education tuition backfill

$8 million for tuition backfill at public colleges and universities

$176,000 for Central Washington University

$566,000 for Eastern Washington University

$2,068,000 for Washington State University

$802,000 for Western Washington University

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SB 6408 – Paraeducator bill

Passed Senate 43-5

House education committee amendment killed bill

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$1.75 million consolation prize

Paraeducator professional development

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FEDERAL LOBBYING

NCCESEU & Bob Canavan, Washington DC lobbyist

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NCCESEU

• 1 Million Members

• CSEA (California School Employees Association)

• MSEA (Minnesota School Employees Association)

• NEA (National Education Association)

• PSE/SEIU 1948

• SEIU 284 (Minnesota School Service Employees)

• Meet twice a year to lobby and coordinate efforts

National Coalition of Classified Education Support

Employee Unions

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Current Issues

• 58% of instruction in Title I by Paraeducators

• Are paraeducators “educators”?ESSA – Every Student

Succeeds Act

•White House Champions of Change Momentum

CSEY – Classified school employee of the

year

• IDEA, Head Start, Title I, Pell Grant, Forest Revenue, Impact Aid

Protect federal education funding from

sequestration cuts

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GOALS FOR 2017 SESSION

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Higher education

Fund collective bargaining agreements

Salary and insurance increases

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IMPLEMENT FINAL MCCLEARYRESOLUTION

Most difficult decisions left to the end

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Supreme Court “McCleary” DecisionJanuary 5, 2012

Not funding amply & over-reliance upon local levy to fund basic education

Impressed with HB 2261 / HB 2776

July 18, 2012

Ordered legislature to make steady progress to full funding

January 9, 2014

Speed up efforts, give us a plan to fully implement by 2018

July 10, 2014

Ordered state to appear September 3 to explain why they don’t

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“McCleary” - continued

September 11, 2014 Order Contempt!

Wait until after 2015 legislative session to determine sanctions

August 13, 2015 Order

$100,000 per day fine

“Adopt complete plan to comply with article IX, section 1 by the 2018 school year.”

July 14, 2016 Order

September 7, 2016 Court hearing

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“McCleary” - continued

the estimated cost of full state funding of competitive market-rate basic education staff salaries, including the costs of recruiting and retaining competent staff and professional development of instructional staff;

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Position

Current State

Funding

Current Local

Funding

Total Current Funding

New State Funded

Amount

Teaching Assistance (InstructionalAides/Paraeducators) $31,699 $1,197 $32,896 $45,386

Office Support and other Non-instructional Aides $31,699 $6,037 $37,736 $40,949

Custodians $31,699 $5,070 $36,769 $39,454

Classified staff providing student and staff safety $31,699 $5,651 $37,350 $44,040

Family Involvement Coordinator $45,386

Technology $31,699 $23,249 $54,948 $83,253

Facilities, maintenance and grounds $31,699 $15,616 $47,315 $50,057

Warehouse, laborers, and mechanics $31,699 $10,743 $42,442 $36,522

Central Office, Classified $31,699 $22,872 $54,571 $56,374

Classified salary recommendation

Cost of salary recommendation

$277 - $324 million

2016 – SB 6195

2015 – several bills debated

HB 2239, SB 6103, SB 6104, SB 6109, SB 6130

2014 - House appropriations committee passed HB 2792 to fully fund

2013 – House passed budget funded 50% of the increase

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Compensation

How to increase state funding and reduce local funding

Fund and restructure insurance benefits

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Problem for us if state pays…

Legislator’s

“Don’t want to write a blank check”

Looking for ways to limit what we can negotiate

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Local levies pay

25% of classified employee costs

$197 million

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Classified employee staffing

State funding formulas should increase

One example of needed formula change

Initiative 1351 / classified employee adequacy study

$680 million increased funding

Current state funds - $788 million

86% increase

Potential 21,000 new classified employees 44

State funding increase

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Teaching Assistants (Elementary / Middle / High) 94,913,779

Office Support (Elementary / Middle / High) 103,741,723

Custodians (Elementary / Middle / High) 5,346,783

Student Safety (Elementary / Middle / High) 38,483,136

Parent Involvement Coordinators (E / M /H) 111,130,003

Districtwide Technology Staff 119,730,144

Districtwide Facilities, Maintenance, Grounds Staff 120,560,606

Districtwide Warehouse Staff, Laborers, Mechanics 86,432,305

Total 680,338,479

Paraeducator bill

Implement paraeducator advisory committee recommendations

Superintendents, principals, administrators, teachers, Paraeducators, parents and interest groups

Standards

Training (including teachers and principals)

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60.4% Instruction by Paraeducators

Programs for students in poverty, immigrants, or have disabilities

• 464,000 students

• $1.3 billion per year

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Districts report providing no training

Insurance consolidation

2012 – SB 5940

3:1 Ratio critically important to legislators

3 school years to fix system

System hasn’t met any of the conditions

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K 12 insurance disintegrating

1.6% state funding increase since 2010

Since that time insurance premiums up…

2013-14: 17%

2014-15: 8%

2015-16: 7%

2016-17: 11%

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PEBB – higher education and PSE staff

UMP – 61% state and higher education employees 4% premium increase over 3 year period 10.7% increase this year

WEA Premera – 61% K 12 employees 32% increase over 3 year period 11% average increase this year

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Members

Bargaining with district

71 open contracts plus,

An equal number of salary and insurance negotiations

Continue successful efforts to negotiate financial gains Fair contract assistance ready and willing

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