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Pasadena Unified Approves Employee Raises

Published on Monday, April 28, 2014 | 4:36 am
 

Pasadena Unified employees will receive a raise for the first time in more than six years.

The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education voted Thursday night to approve agreements between the district and the Association of Pasadena School Administrators and Teamsters Local 911 – the union which represents custodians, painters, maintenance and operations, food service and warehouse workers. The new contract provides a 3 percent raise.

Teachers also received a 3 percent raise in February when the board approved a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with the United Teachers of Pasadena. A tentative agreement for the same raise has been reached with the California School Employees Association, but the union members will not vote until April 30. If approved, the board would vote on that contract at a future meeting.

All raises will retroactively take effect Jan. 1. Although all parties will receive the same raise, the benefits are different.

“We reached an agreement with the teachers that covered both salary as well as benefits and some other issues. Teamsters’ disagreement is pretty straightforward on salary. CSEA was salary and benefits. The benefits were different than what was reached with UTP,” said Adam Wolfson, the district’s director of communications and community engagement.

Teachers were the most vocal about wanting changes in their contracts. Dozens showed up at board meetings in November to protest a lack of funding. One meeting ended prematurely because of the protests. In addition to salary, they received a decrease in the out-of-pocket expenses for health and welfare benefits.

The last raise came in July 2007 when UTP, CSEA and APSA received a 4.5 percent raise and Teamsters received a 5.09 percent raise.

“I think from the district’s perspective, we put a lot of time in negotiations, and we feel we reached a … consensus,” he said.

Union representatives did not respond to requests for comment.

Inn a newsletter last month, United Teachers of Pasadena President Alvin Nash celebrated the new deal and congratulated the teachers for standing up for themselves.
The board also approved two-year contract extensions for Chief Academic Officer Brian McDonald, Chief Finance Officer John Pappalardo and Chief Human Resource Officer Yolanda Mendoza. They also received a 3 percent salary increase effective Jan. 1.

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