Category: General Information JESPA

General Information JESPA

JESPA Bargaining Kick off and General Membership Meeting

Join us for our annual membership meeting and bargaining kick-off happening Saturday, February 11th at 9am-11am. We’ll be discussing our collective bargaining priorities and strategy as we prepare for the upcoming bargaining season.  Members are currently filling out the second of two surveys and data from the surveys will be shared at the meeting for

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Collective Bargaining

New Late Start Contract Language

Last year, there was unfairness in how supervisors paid or didn’t pay and who they did and didn’t call in for late starts! We recently negotiated new contract language on this, so if your supervisors are confused, please have them read this post! From the JESPA CBA: 8-13 Weather and Emergency Late Start Days 8-13-1

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Community

National ESP Day Celebrations!

ESPs hold a special place in the hearts of everyone in our school communities. If you ask any student about their day, they will likely have a story to share about the bus driver who gets them to and from school safely, the secretary who greets them every morning with a smile, the cafeteria worker who

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Campaigns

JESPA Members ratify Tentative Agreement for $3 per hour/$18 Starting Pay

JESPA Members overwhelmingly voted to ratify the Tentative Agreement with 98% YES votes. The next step is for the Jeffco Board of Education to adopt the Agreement as well. Once that happens, the Collective Bargaining Agreement will be in effect on September 1st.   We will let you know when that board meeting is scheduled.

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General Information JESPA

Early Enrollment

Early Enrollment Membership offers eligible potential members the ability to access the benefits of union membership at no cost to them, excluding legal access.

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Campaigns

JESPA Was Right!

Just a year ago, after engaging in bargaining for 10 months, JESPA and the District were at impasse, had mediation, and eventually went to fact-finding. This is a process where a neutral arbitrator is selected who conducts hearings, gathers, facts and evidence, and makes recommendations regarding bargaining. The district’s position at that time was that

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General Information JESPA

Make a New Year Resolution of Solidarity!

Our struggle for living wages, good benefits, and respectful treatment is not a struggle we   face alone. Unions and workers across the nation are standing up together against corporate greed and realizing that solidarity can win them what should be common sense and more than the bare minimum that we have all labored under for

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General Information JESPA

EEOC Win, Reinstatement and Back pay for unfairly terminated JESPA member

In August, the EEOC found reasonable cause that Jeffco violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it denied reasonable accommodations and forced Jefferson County Education Support Professionals Association (JESPA) member Ron Patterson on leave and then terminated him. JESPA attempted to resolve the matter at the lowest possible level but ultimately filed a complaint with

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Action Alert

Ratification Open, Board of Education Action

Now is the time to vote on the wage settlement reached after fact-finding. Voting will close on May 6th, 2021 at 5pm. Please cast your ballot on the 20-21 JESPA Collective Bargaining Opener. After reviewing the Tentative Agreements reached by the bargaining team, it is the membership’s duty to ratify.   All “language” items have

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