Resources
Bargaining Resources
Boards have a responsibility to be effective, informed advocates at the bargaining table. These resources can help manage the impact of bargaining on education programs provided through school districts, ESDs and community colleges.
When districts need assistance improving, developing or creating systems or processes to achieve better relationships with employees, we can help!
A downloadable publication containing a comparison of teacher salaries and benefits for the current year.
Information, guidelines and answers to frequently asked questions about the role of board members during the collective bargaining process.
An overview of the role of the board and the appropriate process and procedures that are followed by the district administrator for reductions in force.
Harvard University report about collective bargaining in the 21st century.
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about bargaining.
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Bargaining Publications
SABA lets you avoid digging through reports and phone lists to gather the latest salary and benefit data from Oregon school districts and ESDs. Click to get teacher salaries for any level of education, percent increases, just the districts in your region, paid leave provisions - plus a lot more. We guide you through five easy steps - with a 'help' button. You can also get the percent increases and insurance data for classified staff - information available nowhere else.
SABA puts comparative salary and benefit data on school staff in Oregon at your fingertips. It is updated continuously no waiting until January to get annual teacher salary and benefit data.
SABA is also available as part of a full SPOT subscription.
Heading into contract negotiations soon? Would it be helpful to plug your district's data into a spreadsheet and instantly get total-cost information in a variety of categories for up to five years? Then, check out OSBA's Proposal Costing models for licensed and classified staff. The models come on a CD with easy-to-follow written instructions, sample models and a tutorial. Designed for experienced users of Microsoft Excel, you will need a Windows-based computer with Microsoft Excel, a 330-megahertz or faster Pentium 4 processor and a minimum 512 megabytes of RAM to use the models. Choose the version that matches your version of Microsoft Excel.
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Bargaining Related Links
Network of educational management experts for effective employee relations. NAEN members are management negotiators in K-12 school districts, community colleges, and universities.
The 2007 Oregon Legislature created the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and established this state-run mandatory health insurance pool for k-12 schools and ESDs.