1. The Tools You Can Use
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy (CBMA)
Center for Advocacy and Outreach
December 4, 2014

2. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA Collective Bargaining and Compensation Team
Health Care Benefits
Retirement Security
Collective Bargaining
Advocacy Sites
Future Webinars
Agenda
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

3. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Collective Bargaining and Compensation Team
Provides advocacy and technical support to affiliates on collective bargaining, compensation, health care, and pension issues
Provides support and expertise to other NEA departments and partners
Advocates for regulations and policies supporting employee rights and a student-centered agenda
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

4. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
NEA’s Health Care Reform Website
Password-protected site for NEA leaders and staff
Affordable Care Act (ACA) orientation and detailed analyses of the law
Strategies for working on reform issues
Help in teaching about the law
Tools for bargainers, organizers, and others
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

5. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Retirement Security
Assists affiliates in defending defined benefit public pension plans
Provides technical assistance to member trustees and affiliates on pension issues
Maintains Listserves of member trustees and network of state affiliate staff working on pension issues
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

6. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Retirement Security
Provides Social Security policy analysis and technical assistance
Collaborates with other NEA departments on retirement issues
Coordinates advocacy work with other unions
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

7. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Retirement Security
NEA partners with allies that promote retirement security including:
National Public Pension Coalition
Trustee Leadership Forum for Retirement Security (at Harvard University)
Council of Institutional Investors
National Council on Teacher Retirement (NCTR)
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Economic Policy Institute
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

8. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Collective Bargaining
NEA launched a new Collective Bargaining and Member Advocacy website for online bargaining assistance.  
Now you only need one login for the NEA Collective Bargaining Laws Manual and the NEA Model Language database
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

9. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Collective Bargaining
Features:
Compatibility with all web browsers and mobile devices
Ability to highlight, copy and paste text from scanned files
Easily changeable account information and password
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

10. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Collective Bargaining
Offers model and actual contract language
Compiles and compares state collective bargaining laws
Provides training and resources on selected bargaining topics and styles
Tracks and analyzes innovative contract provisions and education practices such as: peer review, common core and evaluation.
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

11. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Bargaining Non-Traditional Issues 
New CBMA Student Centered Advocacy Toolkit (draft)
Non-traditional issues and non-traditional approaches
Organizing your members and the community
Training on innovative bargaining techniques
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

12. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Compensation and Salary Resources for Affiliates
CBMA collects teacher salary data annually from all 50 affiliates (and the District of Columbia and the Federal Education Association).
Data from to present.
At the end of the calendar year, we send a snapshot of collected salary data back to affiliates.
More can be found within NEA’s Research Data Mine:
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

13. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
Exposing the Right:
National information on what the right is doing to workers and union rights:
A national map you can click to see what is going on in each state
ALEC exposed—collective bargaining model language
ghts
ALEC Employee Reform Rights Act model language
Employee_Rights_Reform_Act_Exposed.pdf
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

14. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA CBMA Tools
NEA Advocacy Sites:
Edvotes.org
NEA Great Public Schools Network (GPS)
NEA Health Information Network
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

15. NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy
NEA Associations
National Association of Bargaining Professionals (NABP)
Mike McNett, President (Washington)
State Education Research Staff Association (SERSA)
Jon Studer, President (Iowa)
Membership open to all NEA and Affiliate staff who support or engage in collective bargaining or research
Encourages collaboration between the national and state affiliates
Annual conference
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

16. NEA CBMA Tools You Can Use – collectivebargaining@nea.org
Carolyn York, Director, Collective Bargaining and Member Advocacy
Dale Templeton, Manager, Collective Bargaining and Compensation
Collective Bargaining and Compensation
Paulissa Earl, (Western Region + HI, NV)
Charles Holmes, (Midwest Region +,OR, AK)
Andy Jewell, (Northeast + ID
Marcy Magid, (Southeast Region + CA)
David Schlein, (Mid-Atlantic Region + MT, WA)
Health Care
Tim Barchak, (Southeast and West Regions)
Carol Malone, (Mid-Atlantic and Midwest Regions)
Joel Solomon, (Northeast and Pacific Regions)
Pensions
Ed Hurley, (CO, GA, IA, KS, LA, ME, MO, NV, PA, OR, SD, TX, WA, WY)
Dan Doonan, ( AZ, CA, CT, FL, IL, IN, KY, MI, MS, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OH, OK, WI, WV)
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy

17. Future CBMA Webinar Topics
2014 State Election Update and Forecast for Public Pensions- Dec. 9 at 4 pm
Student-Centered Agenda
Others?
Future CBMA Webinar Topics
NEA Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy