Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The current District 86 teachers contract covers four years, but allows for the reopening of salary and benefits negotiations after the first two.
District 86 teachers have made several public shows of solidarity recently as they negotiate with district officials salaries and benefits for the current and next school years. The current four-year contract between Hinsdale Township High School District 86 and the Hinsdale High School Teachers Association (HHSTA) began with the 2010-11 school year and runs through the 2013-14 school year. A clause in the contract, however, allowed for the reopening of negotiations on salary, extra-duty compensation and health insurance for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years. "Anything to do with salary and benefits," Superintendent Nick Wahl said of what's up for negotiation. Those negotiations were reopened last spring and there have since been …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The agreement that will take the two sides through the 2014-15 school year was approved at the board's Dec. 18 meeting.
The following is a release from the Gower School District 62 Board of Education: The Gower Board of Education is pleased to announce it unanimously approved a new three-year agreement with the Gower Education Association (GEA) at its Dec. 18 board meeting. The agreement will run through the 2014-15 school year. The school board and GEA worked together and achieved three primary goals: “Despite a slow economic recovery, our teachers are receiving raises each year. This is possible and fiscally prudent, in part, because of the savings from changes to our health insurance plans and the continued retirements of a number of our veteran teachers," Board President Ryan Asmus said. "In fact, the District’s cost for staffing our classrooms in …
Thursday, November 3, 2011
While Michael Nelson said the two sides came together to acknowledge economic realities, HCHTA leadership said the board used "line-in-the-sand negotiation tactics."
A deal on a new contract has been reached between the school board and teachers of District 181, but bad feelings appear to be lingering. In an email sent Monday, Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers’ Association (HCHTA) President Justin Horne and HCHTA negotiation chair Mario Castillo said they believe the new contract will keep the district “in good financial shape for some years to come” but criticized the school board’s approach to negotiations and said some teachers felt “uneasy and stressed” about working without a contract. “The board seemed emboldened by line-in-the-sand negotiation tactics and seemed intent on pushing the teachers to a strike, but the teachers were not willing to let that happen,” the email read. When the District …
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The contract was ratified last week by the teachers union and will be in place until June 2014.
The public back-and-forth between District 181’s teachers and board regarding labor negotiations began with a bunch of blue t-shirts in August and it ended Monday night at Elm School with only a few comments. Eleven days after it was announced that the District 181 Board of Education had reached an agreement with the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers’ Association on a new contract, the board unanimously approved a three-year deal containing a base-salary freeze for teachers during the current school year. The contract was ratified by the teachers last week, according to HCHTA President Justin Horne. Board vice president Glenn Yaeger filled in as board president Monday in the physical absence of Michael Nelson, who attended the meeting via…
