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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
Collective Bargaining

JESPA Ratifies Historic Agreement on Pay

JESPA Ratifies Historic Agreement!  August 19, 2021     The members of JESPA have spoken, the votes have been tallied, and the Tentative Agreement reached between the JESPA bargaining team and the district has passed with an overwhelming 97% voting in favor of the agreement.  A record number of members turned out to make their voices heard and vote!  Now the ratified agreement must be

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08/20/2021 No Comments
Collective Bargaining

District Moves to Close Fact-Finding to the Public; Loses.

Just days before the start of fact-finding over 2020 financial bargaining, the district filed a motion to close the proceeding to the public. JESPA’s attorney filed a counter motion to keep fact-finding open to the public. The fact-finder sided with JESPA and upheld Colorado Public Bargaining Law, meaning, if the district brings 3 or more

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02/22/2021 No Comments
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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12/24/2020 No Comments
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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11/20/2020 No Comments
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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09/15/2020 No Comments
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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08/16/2019 No Comments
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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06/04/2019 No Comments
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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12/07/2018 No Comments

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