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Austintown, non-teaching staff reach tentative pact
TweetAUSTINTOWN — Negotiators from the Austintown Local School District and the non-teaching Ohio Association of Professional School Employees Local 191 reached a tentative agreement Thursday night on a two-year contract.
The agreement, reached after more than four hours of negotiations, pays the 225 cafeteria workers, secretaries, custodians, sweeper-cleaners, mechanics, groundskeepers, maintenance personnel and paraprofessionals 1 percent more in the first year of the contract and no increase in the second year.
The contract, which runs from July 1, 2007, through August 31, 2009, results in employees increasing their contribution to health care from their current 3.5 percent to 10 percent.
OAPSE members will meet Wednesday for a ratification vote. If the union approves the agreement, the school board will meet Thursday to give its approval.
The school district reached an agreement over the winter with the teachers union.
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Not only that but every single person they gave a lay-off notice to has been recalled. They claim they want to cut costs, but the only cuts they are willing to make are the ones that hurt the kids - closing a school, combining 4th and 5th graders with high school kids, removing computer labs to fit all those kids into the already crowded schools, and yet, not a single pay freeze or healthcare contribution that is comparable to what the residents of Austintown pay. No cuts in personnel, no cuts in Administration, but we are going to have new turf and a great super bus garage (while are kids sit in a brand new school that is too small for all of them to sit down and eat).