South Butler teachers accept contract proposal ending 4-year stalemate
The vote ends a four-year labor dispute between about 170 teachers and the district.
School board members welcomed the vote.
If teachers had voted to reject the proposal, they and the district would have been required to start negotiations over again.
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The proposal was made by a three-member panel, which included one neutral member and one representing teachers and one representing the school district.
The school board accepted that proposal. The eight-year contract will be retroactive from
"While I am glad that we can move forward from this point with a strategy to effectuate a real change in the district, the new contract is not what we had hoped for, nor is it an accurate reflection of what the teachers should have earned in these last four years," Babb said.
Nevertheless he said teachers "feel our efforts will be better spent creating a new culture at the district that will start with building a relationship with the administration and recruiting pro-education candidates to run" in future school board elections.
He said the community and educators need board members who understand the value of teachers, whom he called the district's "largest asset," and to "appropriately support" teachers "who have dedicated their lives to the students."
District solicitor
Teachers hit the picket line in mid-March and returned to the classroom in early April. The proposal will increase teacher salaries but also the amount they pay for health insurance.
--A 3 percent salary increase is included for the 2018-19 school year.
--A 3.5 percent salary increase would follow for each year through the 2021-22 school year.
--A lump sum payment of about
--Health insurance deductibles would double. For example, the in-nework deductible for families would increase from
--For the first time, a
--The cost to teachers for the PPO health insurance plan would increase from
The district said the
Breth said the board doesn't want to increase real estate taxes, but that decision will depend on yearly revenue and expenses. Real estate taxes generate about
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