{"id":2377,"date":"2016-01-21T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2016-01-21T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T22:38:11","slug":"news-release-collective-bargaining-impasse-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2016\/01\/21\/news-release-collective-bargaining-impasse-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Collective bargaining impasse continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District\"KPBSD<\/a>
\nContact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888<\/p>\n

NEWS RELEASE
\n<\/strong>Collective Bargaining Impasse Continues<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Soldotna, <\/strong>January 21, 2016\u2014 Negotiations between the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD), and the Kenai Peninsula Education Association (KPEA) and the Kenai Peninsula Education Support Association (KPESA) remain at impasse. The January 13, 2016, KPBSD health insurance counter proposal to the KPEA and KPESA was not accepted by the Associations<\/strong>.<\/strong>
\nAfter an extended caucus on January 13, 2016, the KPEA and KPESA bargaining team comments\u2014in response to the KPBSD proposal\u2014made it clear that they will not accept any upper limit, or cap, on the amount of the District\u2019s contribution to the High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) that they proposed in October 2015. That proposal requires the District to pay 100% of the costs of the HDHP. In January, the Associations\u2019 comment that it wants the District to pay the first $1,700 per employee per month, plus 100% of an annual cost escalator, and then 85% of any additional cost, is not a cap on the District’s contribution to health insurance costs. It regresses from the current 85%-15% cost sharing for the existing health plan. As such, the Associations\u2019 comments were non-responsive, and displayed no reasonable, economically feasible, or realistic effort to break the current impasse in bargaining.*
\nThe Associations have not presented a written counter proposal to the District. As a result, another negotiating session has not been scheduled.
\nA two day advisory arbitration hearing before Arbitrator Gary Axon has been scheduled for June 1 and 2, 2016. He was jointly selected by KPBSD, KPEA and KPESA.
\nLinks<\/strong>
\n*January 20, 2016: KPBSD Response to KPEA and KPESA January 13, 2016 comments<\/a>
\nKPBSD webpage: School District Collective Bargaining<\/a>
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Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Contact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888 NEWS RELEASE Collective Bargaining Impasse Continues Soldotna, January 21, 2016\u2014 Negotiations between the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD), and the … Continue reading “News Release: Collective bargaining impasse continues”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[255,611,618,619],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-kpbsd","tag-kpea","tag-kpesa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}