WEA ARs to meet with new teachers Thurday, August 18

WEA leaders and ARs will meet for training August 18 at 9:30 am at Orion Jr. High and then provide a lunch for the 80 new hires in Weber District.  WEA's new President, Jo Egelund, new vice-president Cynthia Auble and WEA Board members will host the lunch.  UEA President Sharon Gallagher-Fishbaugh will speak.

Rick

UEA and NEA Support OEA's fight for collective bargaining

UEA leadership and staff have been very supportive of our fight to bargain a contract in Ogden.  Also, NEA has assisted with the staff and legal team.  Our OEA leadership team will meet with our building reps on August 22 to plan our next steps as the school year begins. The OCSD has refused our proposal to come back to the bargaining table for this year.


Rick

New Message on Website: www.ogdenweber.org

Go to our Ogden/Weber UniServ website at www.ogdenweber.org to read a summary of our contract crisis and support that we have received from UEA and NEA.

Rick

New Leadership in Ogden/Weber UniServ

Serving for the next two years as UniServ President and Vice-President are Marlene Irons (South Ogden Jr.) and Clay Kirkham (Gramercy Elementary).  Also serving on the UniServ Council are Sara Byrd (Highland Jr.), Jo Egelund (Fremont High), Cynthia Auble (South Ogden Jr.), Doug Stephens (Ben Lomond High) and Terie Maxfield (Farr West Elementary).  The Ogden/Weber UniServ serves over 1500 members in the Ogden and Weber Districts.

Rick

WEA and OEA Association Rep Trainings Scheduled

WEA will hold their AR Training August 18 at 9:30 at Orion Jr. High right before we meet with Weber New Teachers at a luncheon we are providing.  UEA President Sharon Fishbaugh-Gallagher will speak to our new teachers.

OEA will hold their AR Training August 22 at 4:30 pm at the UniServ office.  We are delivering New Teacher packets to the new hires in the district.

Rick

Project Launch a success

25 Future Educators spent a great week at Weber State University last week and culminated the week with a day in Davis Schools.  Lincoln and Antelope Elementaries hosted the students for day of working with teachers.  Friday night the students and their parents for a nice dinner.  Stephanie Heath and Suzy Davis, along with the WSU staff did a great job.

Rick

OEA and WEA Executive Boards met Wednesday

Both OEA and WEA Executive Boards met in separate meetings Wednesday, August 3.  OEA's board includes our new leadership of Sara Byrd (Highland) VP, Ann Olsen (Shadow Valley) Board member with Lisa Vipperman (Highland) moving from VP to a Board member.  Our board split into subcommittees to plan in three different goal areas 1)Recruitment and retention of membership 2)Public Relations and 3) Political and Community action.  Our first Association Rep meeting will be held August 22 for our current and new building reps.  We will be explaining our organizing plans for this year in light of the district's actions with collective bargaining. For the first year OEA has been excluded from new teacher orientation where we have done the majority of our recruitment.

WEA's team met with a new leadership team of Jo Egelund (Fremont) President, Cynthia Auble (South Ogden VP, and new board members Joan Iverson (Bonneville), and Sheri Hardy (Kanesville).  Plans were made for the new teacher orientation meeting and AR training which be held August 18 at Orion Jr. High.

Rick