Chariho teachers approve new 3-year contract
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Get the 7 to 7 on your mobile at www.projo.com. Twitter: projo | RSS | Email alerts RICHMOND, R.I. -- The Chariho Regional School District and its teachers' union have ratified a new three-year contract. The new contract, set to expire in 2012, calls for a performance-based system, eliminates longevity pay for new hires, and freezes or reduces steps on the salary schedule except for top step teachers whose salaries will increase 2 percent this year and 2.25 percent in years two and three of the contract. Under the new contract, all union members will contribute 16 percent toward their health care by the end of the contract. Read the district's fiscal impact statement. 
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You didn't get enough back from the teachers. The only good thing is the longevity pay removal. Imagine getting longevity pay for doing your job.
Performance based!! And who is going to rate them? Another union member?
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Wait - they have a new teachers contract?! I didn't think this was HUMANLY POSSIBLE without binding arbitration! Surely a cure for cancer is not far behind!!!
(Good work, Chariho. You've proven that calm heads and rational minds can work together to make quick work of financial issues - unlike your NEA & AFT brethren who seem to think it's not possible.)
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They went backwards- Chariho has boasted for years that they have had 20% cost share. Now its 16%? Status Quo Trickery.
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You didn't get enough back from the teachers. The only good thing is the longevity pay removal. Imagine getting longevity pay for doing your job.
Performance based!! And who is going to rate them? Another union member?
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Public sector unions bring to the fore what James Madison called "the violence of faction" and its threat to the "permanent and aggregate interests of the community." This can't be blamed on the unions; they're advancing their members' interests. The fault lies with politicians, particularly those governors and mayors who have been willing to sabotage the public interest to smooth the path to their own reelections. In the absence of tough-minded reform leaders who will take on the public sector unions, the fiscal future of states and localities is bleak.
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