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On Wednesday Berkeley Board of Education representatives met with union employees for their final mediation hearing but failed to agree on a contract after nine other meetings.
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UC Berkeley Law Professor Ty Alper is building on his administrative experience in the Berkeley Unified School District by running for the district’s Board of Education.
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Passing vehicles honked in support as over 70 members of the Berkeley Council of Classified Employees, a union that represents over 600 non-teaching, classified staff of the Berkeley Unified School District, held two rallies in front of the district headquarters on Friday afternoon.
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After five months of negotiations, the Berkeley Unified School District and a teachers union have reached a tentative agreement for a two-year contract.
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To gather support from local businesses, BFT launched a contract campaign with their “Teachers Across Berkeley” event on Feb. 11, during which over one hundred teacher volunteers embarked on a city-wide walk, distributing fliers and appealing to the public.
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The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) and the Berkeley Federation of Teachers (BFT) have agreed to a permanent 2.5% increase to teachers’ 2012-2013 salaries.
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Britt Alamo has spent the last six years teaching eighth grade at Berkeley’s Longfellow Middle School, but without an increase in pay in the last four years, she finds herself in a difficult situation.
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Teachers in the Berkeley Unified School District will get a one-time bonus this year — a small respite after years of stagnant paychecks.
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Berkeley residents Judy Appel, Norma J.F. Harrison and Tracy Hollander are challenging incumbent School Board Director and Clerk Beatriz Leyva-Cutler for the two seats.
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Anywhere from several hundred to several thousand people from throughout the Bay Area are expected to converge in Downtown Oakland Wednesday for a Day of Action and general strike — the nation’s first since 1946, which also took place in Oakland — that Occupy Movement protesters hope will shut down
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