Union leaders and district officials began collective bargaining after six years on the same contract, and after seismic shifts in educating post-COVID
On May 1 hundreds of members of the Bend Education Association, the union representing 1,100 Bend-La Pine Schools employees, gathered outside the BLPS district office in downtown Bend to deliver the initial proposals to their bargaining agreement to district staff. The educators’ current bargaining agreement expires on June 30, and if a new contract isn’t agreed to by then they could start the next school year without an updated agreement…
