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...School employees getting restless (From Page 1) “This ends up being a much greater percentage of our paychecks than those higher-paid workers,” Shaw added. SEIU is asking for only a cost-of- living wage adjustment for its custodi- ans, whose pay currently ranges from $13.24 to $22.69 an hour. In bargain- ing Dec. 3, the district moved off its initial demand that custodians take a 30 percent pay cut. “I have not had a chance to crunch all the numbers, but it looks like the pay cut is roughly 20 percent now, which is unacceptable to us for obvious reasons,” SEIU rep Casey Filice told the Labor Press. At the rally, Leslie Frane, executive director of SEIU Local 503 asked par- ticipants: “Are any of your bills down 30 percent? Has anyone from the ad- ministration taken a 30 percent pay cut?” Mark Freimark, a 23-year custo- dian, said it was disheartening that “our welcome-back-to-work gift was a proposal to cut our pay.” Cafeteria workers, who make Smith new president of PFTCE #111 other unions “as we forge a Several changes have strong foundation of solidar- taken place over the past sev- ity.” eral months at the Portland Additionally, Belinda Rea- Federation of Teachers and gan has been hired as a full- Classified Employees time field representative. She (PFTCE) Local 111. is an Executive Board member Tom Smith was elected of Local 111 and recently was president of the 1,300 mem- elected as a vice president of ber unit, an affiliate of the American Federation of TOM SMITH AFT-Oregon. Local 111 represents teach- Teachers-Oregon. He also was elected a vice president of the AFT- ers, classroom paraprofessionals, secre- taries, clerks, occupational and physi- Oregon Executive Board. Smith, who served as a field rep for cal therapists and assistants, campus Local 111 for the past four years and on monitors, community agents and dri- its Executive Board for three terms, said ver’s education instructors employed at that he looks forward to working with Portland Public Schools. $9.62 to $13.96 an hour, have an offer from the school district for a 1 percent raise. Tom Smith, president of PFTCE Local 111, said his group also has re- ceived an offer from the district of 1 percent a year for four years, no step increases, the same $779 health insur- ance cap, and elimination of the dis- trict’s one-third portion of workers’ compensation insurance benefits. On Nov. 29, Local 111 presented the district with its economic pro- posal: They’ll take the 1 percent wage hike — but they also want annual cost-of-living adjustments and step in- creases. “Our members are very con- cerned over stagnant wages and steps, and look for a fair wage increase and a reformation of the step ladder so that they can move on in their careers as dedicated PPS employees,” Smith said. Local 111 is working with its affili- ate, the American Federation of Teachers-Oregon, to formulize a fu- ture “plan of action.” The union has one more bargaining session sched- uled this year, on Dec. 13. Teachers will start bargaining for a new contract in January 2008. Their current contract expires in June. They are represented by the Portland Asso- ciation of Teachers, an affiliate of the Oregon Education Association. 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