DISTRICT'S EMPLOYEES IN LINE FOR 8.8% RAISE.Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer Five dozen maintenance workers, secretaries and other nonteaching school district employees will get an 8.8 percent pay hike under a three-year contract hammered ham·mered adj. 1. Shaped or worked with a metalworker's hammer and often showing the marks of these tools: a bowl of hammered brass. 2. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. Adj. out during 20 months of negotiations. The school district board Tuesday night approved the contract, which gives members of the Oak Park Classified Association a raise retroactive Having reference to things that happened in the past, prior to the occurrence of the act in question. A retroactive or retrospective law is one that takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, creates new obligations, imposes new duties, or attaches a to Feb. 1. Union members also will receive cost-of-living raises in July 2000 and 2001. ``We view this as a win-win,'' said Jim Long, president of the union. Both sides indicated they were just happy the process was over. ``It was an on-and-on thing,'' board President Bob Kahn
Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton G. Cerf created the IP protocol, the technologies used to transmit information on the Internet. said Wednesday. ``The outcome was very similar to the offer we made at the beginning.'' The nonteaching employees have been working without a contract since the previous agreement expired in June 1997. After bargaining a year, the two sides sought arbitration because they disagreed on whether the district could hire outside workers to cut campus lawns. At that point, ``the negotiations kind of got derailed,'' Long said. The arbitrator arbitrator n. one who conducts an arbitration, and serves as a judge who conducts a "mini-trial," somewhat less formally than a court trial. In most cases the arbitraror is an attorney, either alone or as part of a panel. ruled last summer in favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. See also: favor the district. Bargaining resumed in November, but union members rejected a contract offer. Talks resumed earlier this month, and more than 90 percent of union voters approved the new contract, which will remain in effect until June 2002, Long said. ``It was a difficult process, but I think we arrived at a contract that was good for the employees,'' said Martin Klauss, the district's director of business and administrative services. Long said the process was difficult for workers, who had discussed whether to undertake a strike or other job action to make their point to the district. ``That would have been the last, final measure,'' he said. In other action, the school board was also set to ratify ratify v. to confirm and adopt the act of another even though it was not approved beforehand. Example: An employee for Holsinger's Hardware orders carpentry equipment from Phillips Screws and Nails although the employee was not authorized to buy anything. a contract with the teachers' union, but a problem with the wording of the language sent the union and the district into a daylong day·long adj. Lasting through the whole day. adv. Through the day; all day. Adj. 1. daylong - lasting through an entire day negotiation on Wednesday. Klauss declined to comment on the status of negotiations. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion