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I learned the Maine Education Association’s [MEA] “Dos, Don’ts of Bargaining in Tough Times” weren’t appreciably different from bargaining in good times, or bargaining in OK times, or bargaining in the End Times. Still, this one caught my eye….

• Be informed about State budget developments, their impact on your local school unit and the school unit’s own local budget.
• Educate the members of the local affiliate about these economic conditions, and engage them in the local strategy to protect and advocate for their wages, hours and working conditions.
• Maintain existing collective bargaining agreements and resist attempts to reduce or roll back their terms./>
• Be deliberate and patient, and withhold agreement on any decision locally that is intended to respond to the State budget situation until State authorities have made their own final decisions about the State budget.
• Insist that all other steps to reduce costs be implemented, including reduction-in-force if it is unavoidable, before reductions in employees’ compensation are considered.
• Describe changes in wages, hours and working conditions, if any, in a written agreement between the local affiliate and the school unit.
• Continue to advocate for real increases in the wages and salaries of all bargaining unit members.
• Negotiate improvements in successor collective bargaining agreements in working conditions that may be affected by the economic climate, such as reduction-in-force and workload provisions.

• Accept any reductions in compensation that do not also reduce work expectations – work hours or workload – proportionately.
• Accept wage or salary proposals that have long-term, negative consequences on career earnings, such as freezing wages or salaries, freezing or abandoning wage or salary schedules, or substituting one-time bonuses for base wage or salary increases.
• Subsidize the costs of public schools by compensation reductions or freezes to maintain programs or services that should be funded by the public, not employees.

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