Who Are We?

MSO (Missouri Staff Organization) is the recognized union of the associate staff who work for Missouri NEA. MPSO (Missouri Professional Staff Organization) is the recognized union of the professional staff who work for Missouri NEA. Both staff unions have a bargained contract with Missouri NEA, and that contract affords us inherent rights and responsibilities. We work hard to preserve our rights and uphold our contact language. When a violation occurs, we utilize the grievance and/or arbitration process ourlined in our contracts. These are our union rights, which we have collectively bargained.

The purpose of the MSO-MPSO Blog is to accomplish the following:
(1) Keep the members of both unions (MSO and MPSO) informed of important issues, concerns and events that affect us.
(2) Provide other interested parties a place to find more information about the staff unions' issues, concerns and events, as well as the staff unions' perspectives.
(3) Provide a forum for both members and other interested parties to share thoughts and ideas about MSO and MPSO issues, concerns and events listed on this blog.

We ask that all posts are respectful and refrain from using profanity. Thank you for your interest!















Friday, January 6, 2012

JANUARY UPDATE:

FURTHER INFO ABOUT MEDIATION....
As a result of the mediation meeting in December, MNEA and MSO have come to agreement on several items.  A labor-management training, conducted by the FMCS, will be conducted on January 19th -- with all associate staff at HQ, MSO union officers and MNEA.  Further, all issues between management and the union having to do with the bullying incidents have been withdrawn and/or removed.  That means all disciplinary actions, all grievances, and the ULP that was filed with the NLRB have been withdrawn/removed.  Regular meetings between MNEA and MSO have been scheduled in order to keep the lines of communication open and prevent further issues from spiraling into large problems.  Regular staff meetings at HQ have also been scheduled.  MSO is glad that we were able to move in a positive direction with MNEA to resolve these past issues.  We hope that positive procedures will be put in place in case there are issues in the future, in order to avoid problems.

Happy New Year to all!
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2012 at 8:01 AM

    What constitutes "staff meetings?" Meetings whereby MSO staff will be at HQ for regularly scheduled meetings or are they speaking of the monthly staff meetings by telephone?

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