United Teachers of Franklin

Collective Bargaining Agreement

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MOU: Compensation & Benefits

Advocates for Academic Excellence in Education and United Teachers of New Orleans have reached a new Memoradum of Understanding pertaining to compensation and benefits for Ben Franklin High School Teachers & School Employees. The agreement is the result of months of cooperative and constructive negotiations and will result in significant pay increases across the board for school personnel, including non-teaching staff. In total, the financial package represents a $207,481 increased investment in salaries over the next three years.

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Ben Franklin High School and United Teachers of New Orleans Approve Significant Pay Increases for Teachers

NEW ORLEANS, LA – On Thursday, Oct. 20, representatives from Benjamin Franklin High School and the United Teachers of New Orleans, AFT Local 527, came together to sign a newly negotiated salary schedule for teachers. The agreement is the result of months of cooperative and constructive negotiations and will result in significant pay increases across the board for school personnel, including non-teaching staff. MORE

Benjamin Franklin Finalized Collective Bargaining Agreement with United Teachers of New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, LA － On Wednesday afternoon, United Teachers of Franklin, a chapter of the United Teachers of New Orleans, signed their newly updated collective bargaining agreement with Ben Franklin High School. This is the third contract between the Union and the school, and was negotiated over the course of the 2020-2021 school year. MORE

United Teachers of Franklin Statement on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

October, 2020

United Teachers of Franklin stands in full support of Franklin’s on going commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. These values lie at the heart of our organization:

➢ We support diversity, as it embodies our mission to fight all forms of bias in education.

➢ We support equity, as it forms the foundation of our collective, democratic process.

➢ We support inclusion—not only because we are a union, but because we are teachers.

We work hard every day to create environments for students to thrive. If we are not fighting for students to express their authentic identities in the

New Orleans Charter School Teachers Win First Contract in a Decade--Other Charter Teachers Seek to Replicate Their Success

When teachers in Louisiana’s top performing high school, Ben Franklin, started their drive toward a union contract, it was big news across New Orleans.

The Franklin campaign caught the attention of charter school teachers at Morris Jefferson Community School who, just this month, have asked their board to begin negotiations on a contract of their own.

Until this year, the post-Katrina school system in New Orleans has been a model of hostility to unions. Then came a jolt: A surprise pro-union petition from many of the city’s most admired teachers at its renowned Benjamin Franklin High School.

An overwhelming majority (more than 85 percent of teachers and staff) signed a petition in favor of forming a union at Benjamin Franklin High School. Although the faculty of Franklin High School teach at the highest-performing school in the city, they have experienced many of the same bad management practices seen in the city’s other charter schools

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BEN FRANKLIN TEACHERS ASK FOR UNION RECOGNITION