Contract Campaign WTU 2023

The Washington Teachers' Union

Contract Campaign

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About the 2023-24 Contract Campaign

Last year's contract dealt with big issues to get schools reopened safely and ensure educators a baseline level of respect needed to stay in the job, including retroactive pay raises for the past three years when they worked under an expired contract. In this contract, teachers are focusing on sustained, specific support to help make the entire school system safer and more responsive to student needs. Download our two-page summary of WTU’s contract requests here. However, we cannot do this alone. We need DCPS to take WTU’s #realsolutionsforkids seriously. Yet, it took DCPS

three months after our contract expired to agree to our 1st contract negotiations date! DCPS continues to threaten to take away current teacher rights from the contract instead of focusing on educational issues. On March 22nd., Ward 8 teachers from Anacostia HS and Boone Elementary School walked out of school at 3:30PM to protest DCPS’ current stance. On March 25th, teachers from Ballou HS, Ballou Stay, and Simon ES held their own rally for a new contract supported by the talented students from the Ballou HS’ Majestic Marching Band & Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White. Teachers from across the city are continuing to rally!We will not stop! It’s hard to beat a teacher who never gives up!

Sign our Safe Schools Petition Now!

Invite everyone in your community to sign our

Safe Schools petition now! After signing it, click on the social media icons to post the petition to

your social media accounts.

What You Can Do

Join the Contract Action Team!

To sign up, please register here:

https://shorturl.at/pV269

Wear Red for Ed on Fridays

Wear red and take a selfie during your planning period or lunch break. Post it on your social media accounts and email it to the WTU: wtuaction@gmail.com