Stateside

MAY 1 2019 FEA STATESIDE NEWSLETTER

JANE LOGGINS - FEA Director for DDESS BEN HUNTER - FEA-SR General Counsel ANGELIA STUBBS - FEA-SR General Counsel Illegal Implementation -- FEA-Stateside Region is proceeding to arbitration over management's efforts to illegally and unilaterally impose a new contract on stateside schools, including its dictate forcing Stateside employees to work extended hours without added compensation… Read More

FEA-SR ACTION AGAINST DODEA’S ILLEGAL CONTRACT IMPLEMENTATION

posted April 29, 2019 FEA-Stateside Region (FEA-SR), its members and NEA are asking lawmakers to intervene in DoDEA's illegal implementation of a new contract on Stateside bargaining unit employees. With help from NEA's Government Relations office, FEA-Stateside Region (FEA-SR) and FEA's Washington DC Office are reaching out to decision makers on Capitol Hill, educating them… Read More

VSIP/VERA AND ENI TO BE OFFERED TO STATESIDE EDUCATORS

JANE LOGGINS - FEA Director for DDESS BEN HUNTER - FEA-SR General Counsel ANGELIA STUBBS - FEA-SR General Counsel   STATESIDE REGION Special Update # 3 VERA VSIP and ENI Voluntary Early Retirement Authority and Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay -- VERA and VSIP will be offered to school level professional educators in DDESS/FEA Stateside Region.… Read More

APRIL 2019 FEA STATESIDE NEWSLETTER

April 2019 JANE LOGGINS - FEA Director for DDESS BEN HUNTER - FEA-SR General Counsel ANGELIA STUBBS - FEA-SR General Counsel Illegal Implementation -- FEA-Stateside Region is proceeding to arbitration over management's efforts to illegally and unilaterally impose a new contract on stateside schools, including its dictate forcing Stateside employees to work extended hours without… Read More

FEA-STATESIDE ARBITRATING ILLEGAL CONTRACT IMPLEMENTATION

Employees urged to use Association-provided log sheets to keep track of extra duty time illegally assigned posted March 21, 2019 FEA-Stateside Region is proceeding to arbitration over management's efforts to illegally and unilaterally impose a new contract on Stateside schools, including its dictate forcing Stateside employees to work extended hours without added compensation in violation… Read More

MANAGEMENT’S PREMATURE AND ILLEGAL IMPOSING OF ADDED HOURS FOR STATESIDE SCHOOLS

posted March 15, 2019 As discussed in our message of March 8 we consider management's current attempts to implement an additional 24 hours per academic quarter in DoDEA Americas schools to be premature and illegal, because the successor Master Labor Agreement that included the tentative agreement over those additional hours has yet to be signed… Read More

MARCH 2019 FEA STATESIDE NEWSLETTER

JANE LOGGINS - FEA Director for DDESS BEN HUNTER - FEA-SR General Counsel ANGELIA STUBBS - FEA-SR General Counsel DPMAP -- We have just learned that management has sent out guidance to the field regarding implementation of the DPMAP performance appraisal system. While the parties have finalized MOUs regarding the new DPMAP system for both… Read More

VERA/VSIP RIF MEETING WITH MANAGEMENT

JANE LOGGINS - FEA Director for DDESS BEN HUNTER - FEA-SR General Counsel ANGELIA STUBBS - FEA-SR General Counsel STATESIDE REGION  Special Update   Meeting with Management  VERA VSIP RIF PROCESS Last week FEA SR met with management for our regular monthly meeting. Management officials present included Dr. Judy Minor -- Director of Student Excellence… Read More

VERA/VSIP RIF PROCESS FOR STATESIDE SCHOOLS

Special Update VERA VSIP RIF PROCESS For STATESIDE SCHOOLS We continue to receive questions about excessing and RIF procedures for DDESS educators. Unfortunately, the agency has been slow to share information during this time of uncertainty for many of our members. Below is guidance that was developed by the agency on the VERA/VSIP and RIF… Read More

FEBRUARY 2019 FEA STATESIDE NEWSLETTER

JANE LOGGINS - FEA Director for DDESS BEN HUNTER - FEA-SR General Counsel ANGELIA STUBBS - FEA-SR General Counsel Benchmark Advance -- Mixed Messages form the Districts on use of New ELA Materials -- The new K-5 ELA materials, Benchmark Advance are not being well received by educators or students. The literature is very basic… Read More