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WTU MEMBERS APPROVED A NEW CONTRACT WITH A HISTORIC LANDSLIDE VOTE OF 3,445 TO 29!!
Thank you all so much for the work you've put in these past four years. Hopefully, this contract starts to heal past wounds. When we start negotiations in the next few months on a new contract for 2024 and beyond, we look forward to a far more collaborative relationship. It's imperative that we work together to improve students' learning conditions and outcomes and do what's necessary to reverse the teacher turnover crisis that impacts students directly. - WTU President Jaqueline Pogue-Lyons
Email Sent Dec. 5th with link to Ballot
On Dec. 5th, all WTU members received an email to their DCPS email account from TrueBallot, Inc. TrueBallot, Inc. provides election services for labor unions, associations, Native American tribal organizations, homeowners associations and cooperatives, public entities, and other organizations with hundreds of thousands of members. Security is provided through the use of Personal Identification Numbers (PINs), which were sent in the ballot email to all WTU dues-paying members.
We realize that some of these emails landed in DCPS' spam, archive or other folders. If the steps we've listed below do not allow you to retrieve your ballot email, a new ballot email will be sent to your DCPS address. However, no matter how many ballot emails you request and receive, only one ballot response will be logged into the system. The electronic voting system recognizes the email address of each person submitting a vote and will only count one vote per email address. The email ballot also contains the documents needed for WTU-members to make an informed voting decision as well as a link to the actual ballot. If you did not receive the email, please follow the steps in the Ballot Email Tips below to retrieve your ballot and accompanying information.
Thank you, in advance, for your support in Getting Out the VOTE to show our power!
Downloadable Documents in the Contract Voting Package
- The tentative agreement signed by President Pogue Lyons and Chancellor Ferebee
- A tentative contract fact sheet
- A review of the tentative changes to Articles 6 and 7 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)
- A copy of the tentative CBA
- A copy of the current CBA (October 1, 2016 – September 30, 2019)
- A tentative contract salary schedule
- A Q&A document on the tentative contract
Video: December 7th Virtual Town Hall Meeting regarding Contract
Video: December 5th Virtual Town Hall Meeting regarding Contract
On Dec. 5th, all WTU members received an email to their DCPS email account from TrueBallot, Inc. This email contained the documents needed for WTU-members to make an informed voting decision as well as a link to the actual ballot. If you did not receive the email, please follow the steps in the Ballot Email Tips below to retrieve your ballot and accompanying information.
BALLOT EMAIL TIPS
1. Give the email time to reach you. It’s going out to thousands of people and it is a large file. Everyone
will not get it at the same time.
2. Please remember to check your DCPS email and DCPS junk mail file. The sender of this email is [email protected] which your computer may classify as junk and send to a junk folder instead of your inbox.
3. In addition to checking your Junk mail folder, please type [email protected] or "WTU Contract Ratification" into the Search box of your email account.
4. Also, please check your paystub to make sure DCPS classified you as a WTU-Dues paying member. Only WTU dues-paying members will receive the Contract Voting package. If you are not a member, you can join the WTU if you enroll by Noon on December 13th.
5. If you’ve checked your DCPS email and DCPS junk mail and still haven’t received an email from TrueBallot, Inc. by Tuesday, December 6th, THEN please contact Carlton Nettles - [email protected]
6. Please note when you receive your ballot email, you must click on the voting link to see all the documents in the contract voting package.
Remember, when you do receive the email, click on the Voting link to see all of the documents in the Contract Voting package.
We realize members were expecting this email early this morning and we apologize for the delay. The Ballot email from True Ballot, LLC includes the following information:
- The tentative agreement signed by President Pogue Lyons and Chancellor Ferebee
- A tentative contract fact sheet
- A review of the tentative changes to Articles 6 and 7 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)
- A copy of the tentative CBA
- A copy of the current CBA (October 1, 2016 – September 30, 2019)
- A tentative contract salary schedule
- A Q&A document on the tentative contract
The vote opens on Monday, December 5, 2022 and all votes must be received by Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 7:30pm. The election service company, TrueBallot, Inc., will handle the administration of the vote.
WTU will host virtual Town Hall Meetings to discuss the contract and answer any questions on Monday, December 5th and Wednesday, December 7th.
- Dec 5 Town Hall @ 4:30PM via Zoom. Meeting ID: 939 669 4583; Passcode: 148566
- Dec 7 Town Hall @ 4:30PM via Zoom. Meeting ID: 939 669 4583; Passcode: 148566
Please watch your DCPS email for your ballot and make sure you vote. Please contact Carlton Nettles at [email protected] if you did not receive a ballot. If you are not a member, you can join by Tuesday, December 13, 2022 by 12:00pm and still have your vote counted. Contact your Field Representative or Carleton Nettles at [email protected] to become a WTU member.
Video of WTU Town Hall Meeting - November 29th, 2022
Again, as was stated by JPL in the 11/29 Town Hall Meeting@4:30PM, the only changes that were made to the 2019 contract currently in effect are outlined in the fact sheet titled WTU Tentative Deal: The Facts below. To compare this document with the current one in effect, please visit the contract section of the WTU website here. All ratified contracts are always open to the public on the external website.
WTU Tentative Deal: The Facts
To download a copy of the one-pager, please click here.
To keep all members apprised of the progress of committee work, we invite committee chairpersons to post meeting minutes or periodic updates on their committee’s work. We ask that you do not forward the meeting minutes beyond your colleagues within the Union.