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Collective Bargaining

JESPA Proposes Paid Health Insurance, $20 Minimum to fully staff our schools with ESPs

On Thursday the JESPA Bargaining team met with the district to exchange bargaining proposals and share our vision for thriving schools. After multiple surveys and an in person bargaining workshop, the JESPA team brought the membership’s top priorities to the table: Staffing, Benefits and Wages.     Here are some highlights of JESPA’s proposal: $20/hr starting wages

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02/24/2023 No Comments
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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11/18/2022 No Comments
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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11/16/2022 No Comments
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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04/19/2022 No Comments
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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04/12/2022 No Comments
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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01/04/2022 No Comments
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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10/13/2021 No Comments

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