La Mesa
Grossmont Union High School District teachers have accepted a new two-year contract, averting a one-day strike scheduled for Friday.
In voting completed late Tuesday, 64% of the teachers voted for a settlement that gives them a 5.6% pay increase during the first year of the contract and requires the board to hire 13 new 10th-grade English teachers, said John Logsdon, president of the Grossmont Education Assn.
Logsdon would not reveal how many teachers voted on the contract. There are about 900 teachers in the La Mesa area school district.
Talks on wages, fringe benefits and as many as four other issues will be reopened next year, under the contract.
The teachers had threatened to stage a one-day walkout Friday and to strike indefinitely on Jan. 31 unless a settlement was reached.
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