Alameda Education Association (AEA) is the exclusive representative for AUSD’s teachers, counselors, and school nurses. AEA and AUSD are currently parties to a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) running through June 2018. By mutual agreement, the parties will begin negotiating a successor CBA this fall.

The Educational Employment Relations Act (EERA; Government Code Section 3540 et seq.) provides for and establishes requirements for collective bargaining between public school employers and exclusive representatives of certificated and classified employees. The EERA obligates public school employers and exclusive representatives to “sunshine” their initial negotiating proposals to the public and to provide an opportunity for public expression on such proposals.  This item is provided in order to meet AUSD’s sunshine obligation under the EERA. AEA’s chosen articles will be sunshined in a separate agenda item at a later meeting.

In accordance with Board Policy 4143, the Board recognizes its responsibilities to represent the public's interests in the collective bargaining process, keep the public informed about issues being negotiated, and provide members of the public an opportunity to express their views on all initial contract proposals.