HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

Members: On Friday, January 14, the district responded to our retirement incentive proposal. The three biggest changes that they wanted were 1) two years *2022 and 2023) instead of three years (2022, 2023 and 2024); 2) 40 teachers, 20 each year instead of 30; and 3) $9,000 instead of $22,500. The HEA bargaining team met over email and text to discuss this, and made a counter proposal. The counter and the reasoning: We compromised to two years, 2022 and 2023. This was a fir

Members: Your HEA Bargaining Team has been busy developing a possible retirement incentive and gearing up for interest-based bargaining for our salaries for 2022-2023. As of this writing, we do not have a response from the district on the retirement incentive and have been unable to lock in a date with the district to begin our bargaining process. Retirement Incentive Timeline: 11/3/21--Jane first asked Rex Weltz if there was interest from the district in holding a retiremen