Just over 90% of 1,226 members of the Mat-Su Education Association voted in favor of the strike authorization, union president Vicki Hewitt said Monday.
PALMER — Members of the union representing teachers in Alaska’s second-largest school district voted Friday to Negotiations with the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District began in early 2022, Hewitt said. Union members are working without a contract and using an existing contract instead.
The vote does not mean a strike is imminent, she said. Instead, it gives the union’s bargaining team the latitude to call a strike in the future. The union is required to give 72 hours notice if it intends to strike. “If the school board and the district force us to strike, we will,” Hewitt said. “But in the meantime, we’re trying to get a negotiated agreement instead of this imposed contract.”
The union’s main sticking points are pay raises that don’t reflect high rates of inflation and an immediate switch from current Alaska-based health insurance provider Public Education Health Trust to Premera, starting July 1.The union last week said that, after more than a year of negotiations, the school district imposed a last best contract offer on Friday rather than continuing bargaining. Both sides are still waiting on an overdue report from an independent arbitrator, Hewitt said Monday.
“The District prefers to have a mutually agreed to collective bargaining agreement,” officials wrote. “It has tried its utmost to achieve an agreed upon but the parties remain gridlocked on the health insurance provider.”that ended in March, as well as rolling bus route cancellations for much of the year.
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