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NEWS ADVISORY 

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CONTACT: 

Shaun Laden, President, ESP chapter

Minneapolis Federation of Teachers 

612-718-9070

SLaden@mft59.org

 

Minneapolis educators earn the return of incentive pay for in-building work during the pandemic 

 

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 1, 2020 -- The Minneapolis Public Schools will resume paying a $5-an-hour pay differential to education support professionals who are working in the school buildings with the children of essential workers, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Education Support Professionals announced Tuesday.

 

“After months of working together and lifting up our collective voices, workers won an important victory for our students and families,” said Shaun Laden, president of the ESP chapter of the union. “Providing a quality education for the children of our Tier I workers by ensuring safe and stable staffing for on-site emergency childcare has been our goal from day one. This agreement provides the conditions to do that.”

 

The agreement says educators who are providing emergency childcare will receive an extra $5 per hour. The district also agreed to make certain staffing changes to ensure there are safe ratios of students to staff, including a special arrangement for students with special education needs.

 

The new agreement comes after weeks of protests and negotiations. The agreement restores the differential the district paid education support professionals last spring when school buildings closed to most students during the initial COVID-19 outbreak.

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Since the pandemic began, education support professionals have been on the frontlines of keeping Minnesota working. Laden said nearly a dozen ESPs who provide child care have already left the district this year because of concerns about pay and workplace safety.

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The mission of Minneapolis Federation of Educators Education Support Professionals, Related-Service Professionals and Retirees is to promote, strengthen and improve public schools. This is done through shared decision making of those who are closest to the students.  We exist to protect and promote the well-being of our members. We build with our families, students, community, district, and other labor unions a movement that fights for the resources needed to advance these principles. We accomplish this mission through sustainable organizing, collective action, collective bargaining, high quality professional practice and political activism.

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