PESPA
PESPA Pride: October 23, 2007
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PESPA BOARD RECOMMENDS CONTRACT SETTLEMENT
The PESPA Executive Board voted last Thursday to recommend a "yes" vote on the proposed salary and benefit package for 2007-2008. Voting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, October 24, at each work site. If ratified by the PESPA bargaining unit, it will be presented to the School Board October 30. Following their ratification, raises and retroactive pay will be in the checks of November 16. "This was a long time coming," said PESPA President Randy Dodds. "In the 40 year history of collective bargaining in Pinellas, it has never taken this long to get an agreement."
PESPA Pride: October 1, 2007
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CONTRACT TALKS STILL STALLED
The on again – off again special session of the legislature has kept a salary settlement from being achieved by members of the bargaining team. Although PESPA believes that the cuts to K-12 education will be minimal, district budget officials are unnerved by the potential size of a “worst case” scenario in which as much as $36 million could be lost (according to an e-mail from the Superintendent). Unlike Hillsborough, which was sitting on a 10% budget reserve, Pinellas has dipped into its reserves each of the last several years because of declining enrollment.
