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Anoka‑Hennepin administrators report bargaining progress and open contracts; teachers’ talks just begun
Summary
Human resources Director Dr. Jennifer Cherry updated the Anoka‑Hennepin School Board on labor negotiations on July 14: one group (community school coordinators) has settled, talks with building service employees remain far apart, and bargaining with the district’s largest teacher unit began July 10.
Dr. Jennifer Cherry, executive director of human resources for the Anoka‑Hennepin Public School District, told the school board on July 14 that the district is conducting bargaining with multiple employee groups and will continue regular public updates.
Cherry said the district has 18 employee groups: 13 collective bargaining units and five unaffiliated groups. She reported one settled agreement so far (community school coordinators) and described two active negotiating tracks. The first is the building service employees unit (custodial and related staff, approximately 200 employees, represented locally as “Local 284”), which has met four times and remains “pretty far apart” on financial proposals; a bargaining session was scheduled for July 16. The second active track is the district’s largest bargaining unit — K‑12 teachers (including adult basic education, early childhood family education and kindergarten readiness staff), represented by Anoka‑Hennepin Education Minnesota, Local 7007 — which met for the first time July 10 and is scheduled to reconvene July 23.
Cherry said the teacher unit includes just under 3,300 employees and that the district expects to continue negotiations with that group and with several other units later this fall, including child nutrition staff and technical specialists represented by the Minnesota School Employees Association. Principals’ bargaining typically follows teacher settlement work, she said.
Cherry reminded the board that the district provides these public updates under its negotiation code of ethics (policy 209) and that detailed negotiation strategies are handled in closed session. She said the district will post negotiation updates on the district website and return to the board with progress reports at future meetings.
No board action or vote occurred on July 14.
