Category: JESPA Wins

Campaigns

JESPA Applauds District for Food Service Changes

Starting last spring at the beginning of the the pandemic and remote learning, JESPA leadership asked the district to put employees to work to better serve students.  JESPA leaders have been relentless in pushing the district to explore options to put ESPs to work to increase services and supports to our students. Food and internet

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COVID-19/ Coronavirus

Under Pressure from JESPA, District Relents on Furlough (for now)

This week district officials shared with JESPA leadership that up to a quarter of the ESP workforce could be furloughed in coming weeks. By Thursday afternoon, food service workers were receiving calls that they “shouldn’t report to work on Monday” due to a lack of work created by remote learning. Friday morning, the district adjusted

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COVID-19/ Coronavirus

JESPA/JEFFCO Agree to COVID-19 Worker Protections

August 21, 2020 Memorandum of Understanding Jeffco Public Schools (the District) is committed to offering high quality education while offering safe-guards for the health and well-being of students and staff. Therefore, the District has developed a Restart Plan with full consideration to the health, safety and wellbeing of our students and employees. This was done

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Collective Bargaining

Additional Pay Coming Your Way! Thanks JESPA & JCEA!

You probably have already read about our success in negotiating a new JESPA 6-year agreement. The final draft is going to print and will be coming your way soon. Details are on our site here: https://jeffcoespa.org/negotiations/ We reached a great compensation agreement for 2019-2020, and may be receiving additional funds, depending upon ratification of the

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Collective Bargaining

JESPA’s Tentative Agreement for Ratification

On May 30, 2019 we reached a Tentative Agreement with the district on our JESPA Negotiated Agreement. We have been working all year, and are proud of the collective work we have done to achieve our next 6-year agreement! Here is the Tentative Agreement and Tentative Compensation Agreement for your review: JESPA Tentative Agreement CBA

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JESPA Wins

5.6% Salary Increase

Thanks to the hard work of the JESPA negotiations team all ESPs received a 5.6% increase to their overall salaries on their September paycheck.  The team worked hard last year to negotiate a raise that would apply to all ESPs. The negotiations team also took into account increasing starting salaries to help encourage new people

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JESPA Wins

Presidents’ Day for Paraprofessionals

Paraprofessionals work hard every day to ensure that students receive the extra help they need in the classroom, are safe on the playground, are tended to in the clinic and many, many other important duties! Until now, Parapros were only paid for 5 holiday while all other ESPs received 6 paid holidays.  The Negotiations Team

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JESPA Wins

Opportunity to strengthen JESPA contract

The JESPA Negotiated Agreement expires on August 31, 2019 The 2019 Negotiations session marks an opportunity to look at the entire Negotiated Agreement to determine areas where we can make improvements, changes that need to be made and new things we can add to improve working conditions for ESPs. The JESPA Negotiations Team has spent the past month preparing

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