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RTPA details bargaining history, sets Dec. 15 fact-finding date and presses district on safety and pay
Summary
Rocklin Unified teachers' union bargaining chair Emily Thomas outlined multi-year bargaining history, said RTPA will enter fact-finding Dec. 15 and urged the district to be settlement-minded; she also raised classroom safety concerns and asked the district to explore campus monitors and clearer administrator response options at elementary sites.
Emily Thomas, the bargaining chair for the Rocklin Teachers Professional Association (RTPA), told the school board that RTPA will enter fact-finding on Dec. 15 at the Placer County Office of Education after months of negotiations over pay and working conditions.
"RTPA is approaching fact-finding with optimism and the hope that RUSD will walk into that building settlement-minded," Thomas said, adding that the union remained open to a "reasonable settlement." She reviewed settlements and cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) figures dating to 2021, saying the union accepted less than full COLA in past years to build trust at the bargaining table.
Thomas described a breakdown in trust after this spring's talks, saying RTPA had asked for a 0.5 percentage-point ongoing increase but was told only one-time dollars were…
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