What is mediation?

The district is moving forward with both unions to mediation. This can be a productive tool that is available in the state to help close the gaps in the articles we currently are not seeing eye to eye. For OSEA #124, the union requested mediation. For CEA, the district requested mediation.  Both of these requests go through the Employee Relations Board.  The state assigns a mediator to each request.  They then share dates available with the mediator and then we work on finding and finalizing the date(s) that work for everyone.  

OSEA and the district will meet with the state mediator on October 26.

CEA and the district will meet with the state mediator on Nov. 5. These meetings are not open to the public. We will share what we can on the Bargaining website.