Friday, January 18, 2013
They are the first of three town unions to settle their contract.
The police union approved a new three-year contract Monday night in a 20-2 vote. The contract now goes before the Town Council for a vote Jan. 28. The contract gives no raise the first year, a 2 percent raise in year two, and a 3 percent raise in year three. The police union is the first of the town’s three unions to settle a contract. Contracts for all three unions expired at the end of the last fiscal year – June 30, 2012 – so this new police contract, if approved by the Council, will be retroactive to July 1, 2012. Lieutenant Stanley "Skip" Cirella, the union representative for the police, said negotiations with the town began a year ago. “It is definitely a process that takes time,” he said. “As usual we do hope to complete …
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Union representatives say any changes need to be negotiated.
In a 6-0 vote Tuesday night, the School Committee approved a new personnel policy that eliminates using senority as the sole criteria for teacher hiring and placement. Committeewoman Mary Ellen Winter was absent. School Committee Chair David Green said the action came in an effort to align EGSD policy with the state Department of Education's Basic Education Program, or BEP. The BEP calls for "an effective human capital management system," according to a 2009 letter from Education Commissioner Deborah Gist to superintendents. In that letter, Gist highlighted the language in the BEP (which was enacted by Gist's predecessor, Peter McWalter) that reads, "each LEA shall maintain control of its ability to recruit, hire, manage, evaluate and …
Monday, December 10, 2012
They will get 2 percent raises for the remainder of this year, and the next two years under the new contract.
Two and a half years after the EG School Committee’s attempt to outsource custodians, both sides said negotiations to extend the contract an additional two years this fall were smooth and amicable, with union members getting a 2 percent raise for the remainder of this fiscal year, and for each of the next two years. Under this new contract, the “sick bank” was abolished; instead union members will now buy temporary disability insurance (TDI). The money will be deducted from their paychecks. “It was very genial,” said School Committee Chair David Green of the negotiations. “The process was fine, everyone was great,” said union representative Joe Machon, an electrician with the district. It was a lot different than the last contract …
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The teachers union cites failure of the schools to notify about negotiating a new contract, paving the way for a one-year contract extension.
Before contract negotiations have even begun on a new teachers contract — the existing one expires July 30 — the two sides are at loggerheads over the breach of a clause in the contract that the union says extends their contract one year. According to Supt. Victor Mercurio, union officials told him earlier this month that since they were not notified in writing about the school department’s desire to negotiate a new contract, the existing contract would be renewed for an additional year. Although that language does exist in the contract between the teachers and the school department, that is not how school officials see it. “We were surprised and disappointed,” said School Committee Chair Deidre Gifford. “There’s no reason why they can’t …
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Friday, January 6, 2012
The 85-member union gains 2-percent salary increases a year for three years.
In what could be a precursor to teacher contract negotiations this summer, the 85-member paraprofessional and secretarial union and the school department have come to agreement on a new three-year contract that boosts health co-pays while granting 2 percent salary increases each year. “I feel that we came out with a pretty fair deal considering the economy,” said Sue Verdon, an office paraprofessional at East Greenwich High School. “Some other school departments … didn’t fair as well as we have.” Union members will receive 2 percent salary increases for each of the fiscal years 2012 (which began July 1, 2011), 2013 and 2014. In addition, members - who had been paying 5 percent co-pays for health benefits - will now have to pay 8 percent …
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10:14 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
You can be assured a very, very, very small percentage of municipal town employees have no Co-pay. They have been working for the town for 20-30 years and it was part of their contract. Some of them only make between 35- 40k. after that many years of service. And any new hires for beyond the last decade plus have Co-pays. Sometimes it's the details that make all the difference in a story. Hey, … more ›