KEA files grievance against district, as contract impasse continues

While negotiations continue, the Kennewick Education Association has filed an Unfair Labor Practice grievance with the State Public Employment Relations Commission.

In it, the KEA claims four counts of bad faith bargaining – including regressive bargaining and an illegal proposal exceeding the statutory maximum in salary, also one count of unlawful surveillance due to a claim the District cracked into the computer of KEA’s head negotiator despite an agreement that members have access to computers for association business...and another count saying the District’s bargaining team members have not been given proper authority to bargain, which is required by law.