CA: Orange County teachers accept pay cuts to avoid layoffs, larger classes

Sac Bee ^ | 3/14/04 | AP - Santa Ana, CA

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Some 3,000 Orange County teachers have agreed to reduce their salaries by 4 percent over the next two years to help avoid layoffs and larger class sizes in their financially strapped Santa Ana Unified School District.

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No mention if any administrators or superintendents are also taking paycuts.

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or union offcials.

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In exchange for the agreement, district officials dropped their request for an $8,000-a-year cap on medical benefits and agreed to a new provision adding domestic partners to the list of people eligible for benefits.

I wonder id this includes shak-ups of the oposite sex also? Sure comforting to know that homosexuals are teaching our chilren.

[Lancey Howard]

In exchange for the agreement, district officials dropped their request for an $8,000-a-year cap on medical benefits and agreed to a new provision adding domestic partners to the list of people eligible for benefits.

I have a feeling that "dropping the cap on medical benefits", together with adding homosexual "partners", brothers-in-law, etc., will more than offset the paltry 4% cut in salary. What a scam.

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Wow. Horrible spelling.....sorry.

[TheBattman]

A couple of observations:

1 - are these actual "pay-cuts" or are they technically a freeze on current wages. Most teacher's contracts in most places are based on a schedule with yearly increments. IF this is an actual pay-cut, then this is a good move.

2 - The adding of medical benefits for gay "spouces" is probably going to eventually cost more than the pay-cut would save. What a lovely example to set "for the children". Must be a lesson in "tolerance".

Ugh

[heleny]

have a feeling that "dropping the cap on medical benefits", together with adding homosexual "partners", brothers-in-law, etc., will more than offset the paltry 4% cut in salary. What a scam.

It is hard to imagine that a majority of the teachers would prefer to take a cut (whether from current salary levels or from projected salary levels that include scheduled increases) than to refuse to expand benefits to domestic partners.

It seems more likely that the liberal union demanded the domestic partnership benefit, and the teachers weren't really well represented or they didn't read the contract details.

I hope fewer than 50% of teachers have or encourage domestic partnerships.