Notes from the SJEA
Posted August 29, 2014 at 9:24 pm by Tim Dustrude
Here is a statement from the San Juan Education Association…
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San Juan Education Association members are hopeful they can come to a fair and reasonable contract settlement with San Juan Island School District Sunday at their next scheduled bargaining session.
The contract expires Aug. 31 and teachers and other school specialists voted last Monday to stop working if they do not have an agreement for their new contract.
“The last thing the members want to do is to stop working just as the school year begins, but they have been pushed to their limit,” San Juan EA President John McMain says.
Both the Association and District bargaining teams have been meeting for hours at a time to try to reach a settlement. The sticking point continues to be compensation, but members are hopeful that the teams will reach a sustainable and equitable solution before Tuesday.
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2 comments:
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We are indebted to our teachers. Think what our lives would be like if we didnt’ have those dedicated bastions of knowledge and behavior. We ask more and more of the teachers every year, and yet their pay has not increased? That’s baloney!!! We need to pay a decent wage to these selfless teachers.
We all value our teachers, but let’s remember that their pay raises over last few years are greater than just about anyone else on island, including school district admin staff. Most of us would love a job with health insurance and any raise at all. Let’s give the economy a few more years to recover before putting screws to the district.
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