MSO-MPSO: August 2015

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!

Saturday, August 15, 2015

After long and careful consideration, the MSO bargaining team decided to be the bigger party and move forward with the MSO-MNEA bargaining agreement by going ahead and adding end dates to the agreed to items. We figured that we would be back at the table in the Spring and could deal with any items that we had issues with at that time. We couldn't see where there was going to be any different outcome, even if we met with the Mediator in September. We have withdrawn the ULP with the NLRB as well.