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Action Alert

Pandemic Recovery requires ESPs – Open Letter to Superintendent Dorland

ESPs play a critical role in student success. We can’t support our students if there are critical shortages of support staff. For a successful pandemic recovery plan, we need to attract and retain ESPs. We work to make sure students are safe, healthy, engaged, supported, and challenged, and we are critical to the success of our students and our schools! Will you stand with your coworkers to demand better for Jeffco students?

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06/17/2021 No Comments
Collective Bargaining

Jeffco Legislators Support a Living Wage for JESPA!

This week, many of our Jeffco legislators took action to support a living wage and our proposal during fact-finding for all Jeffco Education Support Professionals. They sent this letter to the Jeffco Board of Education! Let’s send a thank you note to our legislators! (you can personalize this letter) Last October a number of you

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05/14/2021 No Comments
Collective Bargaining

JESPA Bargaining Dates and General Membership Meeting May 29

Save the dates for May Bargaining Sessions, which you can view on Jeffco’s Livestream channel! May 6, 2021 8am-noon May 17, 2021 4pm-8pm May 25, 2021 12pm-4pm General Membership Meeting We are planning a General Membership Meeting for the purpose of conducting Union Business, ratification.  Ratification will only occur if we have reached  a Tentative

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05/05/2021 No Comments
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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05/03/2021 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
General Information JESPA

JESPA General Membership Meeting January 30th at 9am

Agenda items: Bargaining 2021 Priorities Bargaining 2020 Updates, Fact Finding, and Ratification Official Business and Reports Bylaws News, Upcoming Elections information We will hold a ratification of the 2020 “Tentative Agreements” that were reached at the table. Members will vote on tentative agreements that are not moving to fact finding. All tentative agreements must be

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01/16/2021 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

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