Second in a series
This year, in addition to the double-digit Step-and-Column increases accumulated by the majority of teachers, the School District also restored the last of the four furlough days to the school schedule. By doing so, all teachers received a 2.17 percent gain in salary, adding $430,000 over what they received last year.
But Wait. There’s More.
With the statewide passage of Prop. 30 on Nov. 6, the District also finds itself contractually mandated to pay the teachers a one-time payout of $110,000 this year for one of those past furlough days.
More Never Enough
Adding up all of these various salary enhancements, including this one-time, Furlough Now Deferral Day payment, the teachers, as a whole, have received well beyond $2.2M in compensation over the last five years. I guess that is still not enough, even for the Teachers Union.
Not to be Left Out
The District further agreed to reimburse the management and the classified workers unions for the same furlough/deferral day. These additional union agreements brought the district-wide, mandated payout to about $200,000.
Plenty for Nothing
All this for a furlough day that everybody in the District had negotiated. Everyone had agreed not to work on that day and not to get paid. Now, it seems, months later, everybody involved has changed their minds and every district employee will now get paid for not working that furlough day.
(To be continued)
Mr. Laase may be contacted at GMLaase@aol.com
