Your membership also supports your colleagues. Our ability to represent all bargaining unit members with the District is strengthened by increased membership. Your membership will allow you to have an active voice in the local and will provide support at the bargaining table. ETA is not just a union; it is a professional association dedicated to the improvement of teaching and learning in the Etiwanda School District.
All Etiwanda teachers are invited and welcomed to attend ETA Meetings.
The current ETA Secretary - Susan Ralston-Williams is able to assist you in determining your membership status. Please feel free to contact her for additional information.
Teachers have a permanent (i.e. continuing) Contract with the District after they have completed a two year probationary period and return for the first day of their third year. Permanent teachers must sign an “Intent to Return” form each spring in order to continue their Contract with the District for the next school year.
Probationary means that you are in the process of becoming a permanent teacher. Your Employment Contract must state that you are a probationary teacher designated as either “Year 1” or “Year” 2. According to the Education Code, you must be a probationary teacher for two years before you can become permanent. A probationary teacher is not a long-term substitute, temporary teacher, year-to-year categorical teacher, day-to-day substitute or a permanent teacher.
Each side has to sunshine, or make public what they are going to be negotiating for the contract year before negotiations can take place. Then the bargaining teams meet and discuss proposals.
Wages, salary schedules, hours, work days, work year, working conditions, and teacher work calendar.
It is not up to the teachers to propose budget cuts. It is the responsibility of the district to bring budget cut proposals to the bargaining table. The teachers association can then decide if they are willing to accept or reject proposals, find alternatives or come to a compromise.