Day 1 of class

Collective Bargaining is something in which I have never participated. I did a powerpoint on the key points of being on the team for the board. I am still a little confused about some of the aspects, but will continue to listen and learn. Some of the terminology is still a little unclear about what you have a "duty" to bargain and what can be bargained. Our board gave away teachers doing bus duty a few years ago. Apparently when that was done, it was to stop the junior high principal from making teachers stay after students left and watch kids who had not boarded buses yet. Instead of addressing that, the teaches have a no bus duty clause in the contract. I have asked for this to be modified or even have what constitutes bus duty clarified but to no avail. They say "walking" their students out to the buses is bus duty!! It makes it hard to get help with this dangerous time of the day. I have never understood really what the difference is between Interest Based Bargaining and Traditional Bargaining, so doing the paper will certainly give me some insight! I wonder if anyone else caught the unfair labor practices violation was an acronym - TIPS You cannot threaten, intimidate, promise or surveillance? It was an interesting class and I learned a great deal.