Rights
This concept means an employee cannot be dismissed without a fair and objective reason.
What is just cause?
This was the year REA was founded.
What is 1974?
These people are currently the president and vice president of REA.
Who are Jeffrey Fuller and Stephanie Mesenbrink?
In return for maximum workplace representation and protection, Reynolds workers pay 0.4% of their paycheck.
What are dues?
This person was the co-founder of the United Farm Workers, a key organizer for the rights of migrant farm workers.
Who was César Chávez?
Your union representative gives you a card upon hire that demonstrates you have these rights to representation if called to a meeting potentially involving discipline.
What are Weingarten rights?
This REA social event happens each May as an anniversary to the union striking.
What is Solidarity Day?
This is the parent organization of REA.
What is Oregon Education Association (OEA)?
If an employee engages in protected union activity, the employee is protected from this kind of response from the employer.
What is retaliation?
This person was the "apostle of industrial unionism," a prominent leader in the fight for the working class and who founded the American Railway Union.
Who was Eugene V. Debs?
In Reynolds, the union has a right to speak for this number of minutes at the end of one staff meeting per week.
What is ten (Union 10)?
This was the year REA went on strike.
What is 2012?
This person leads the bargaining team as chair.
Who is Brian Jay?
This document is the full name of the contract between the union and the district.
What is the collective bargaining agreement (CBA)?
This recently-deceased author wrote No Shortcuts, a guide for modern-era thinking about organizing and challenging corporate power.
Who was Jane McAlevey?
This right in the Reynolds contract declares, "Controversial issues that are related to the curriculum may be addressed in a manner that is appropriate to the maturity and intellectual/emotional capacities of the students."
What is academic freedom?
This was the year OEA was founded.
What is 1927?
This group advises the president and meets monthly.
Who is the Executive Council?
This is the name of the federal agency that safeguards employees' right to organize.
What is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)?
This group was of mostly young, unmarried, female textile workers in 19th-century Massachusetts factories. They worked 12-14 hour days in dangerous conditions. Their strikes inspired early labor activism.
Who were the Lowell mill girls?
This article from the Reynolds contract gives a member the right, when "a student is by their behavior disrupting the instructional program to the detriment of other students," to file documentation and expect a reasonable response from administration.
What is Article 18?
This movement was a series of protests in Fall 2011 which began in New York City and spread around the world involving organized labor allying with progressive forces to place the crisis of accumulation of wealth and economic inequality on the public agenda.
What is Occupy Wall Street?
A recent bargaining post on social media featured the theme of Reynolds School District offering members this amount.
What is zero?
When the employer violates the contract, the union has the right to file this kind of a document against them.
What is a grievance?
This thinker argued capitalism estranges workers from their products and creative potential, also known as "alienation."
Who was Karl Marx?