...School employees getting restless
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“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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