Category: JESPA Wins

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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