LCEA Votes to Take Negotiations to Arbitration on an 11-6 Vote

LCEA Emergency
Executive Board Meeting
05/21/2008
4:00 PM
Room 203
Middle School

LCEA President Dave Bergman called the meeting to order at 4:10 PM

Tom McLaughlin requested that a roll-call vote be taken.

There was a brief discussion of each building's method of gathering input from members on whether to accept the LC Board of Directors last offer of a $900.00 increase on the base or to move forward to arbitration in a effort to resolve the differences between the negotiating parties. Please click here to read more about the information gathering process. All buildings spoke to their members and the votes on the board represent the will of the membership.

Tom McLaughlin moved that:

"The LCEA shall proceed to arbitration to settle the 2007-2008 LC Master Contract."

Allison Towne seconded the motion.

LCEA Secretary Kim Muta recorded the roll call vote as follows.

Margie Argotsinger	Yea
Dave Bergman	Nay
Jennifer Doorlag	Nay
Susan Drustrup	Yea
Beth Frank	Nay
Lisa Gundlach	Yea
Jennifer Hake	Yea
Al Lorenz	Yea
Tom McLaughlin	Yea
Kathy Moe	Nay
Barb Motes	Nay
Kim Muta	Yea
Melinn Ruzicka	Nay
Joanna Stenlund	Yea
Ashley Shipp	Yea
Allison Towne	Yea
Tara York	Yea

The motion carried on a vote of 11 Yea votes to 6 Nay votes. Our Association needs you! Please plan on attending the Arbitration Hearing next Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM in the High School Multi-Purpose Room to support your union. We will have snacks for members who will be there to demonstrate our solidarity and to give our team moral support. You will be able to grade papers while being at the meeting.

Our role will be to listen to our argument and the Board's argument. Spectators do not speak during the hearing. The arbitrator will make a ruling in 15 days.

Since we will have a delay in issuing the contracts please be aware of this clause in our contract:

Late Resignation: An employee who returns a signed individual teaching contract or contract modification to the Board for the following year and then is released from that contract, or who is released from an individual teaching contract after June 15 even though a signed individual contract or contract modification has not been returned to the Board, shall be liable for the actual newspaper advertising expenses incurred by the Board in seeking a suitable replacement.