Anaheim : Teachers OK Tentative Pact on Pay Hikes
Teachers at the Anaheim Union High School District, who staged a one-day strike May 10, overwhelmingly ratified a contract settlement that will mean about a 1% pay increase for the school year that just ended and at least 3.2% for next year.
Leonard Lahtinen, president of the Anaheim Secondary Teachers Assn., said Thursday that 88% of 690 teachers voted over the last few days to accept the contract. There were 90 ‘no’ votes, he said.
The Board of Trustees will officially vote on the tentative settlement at its July 10 board meeting, according to Assistant Supt. LeRoy Kellogg. But Kellogg said Thursday that it would almost definitely be approved.
“In public (at a board meeting), the board president assured the union that the board would approve the contract,” he said.
The contract agreement also states that both sides will come together at the end of July, and again in September, to discuss whether there is more money for a larger teacher salary increase once the state Legislature approves a new budget.
In May, almost 700 of the district’s 900 teachers staged a strike, which they said stemmed from frustration of working without a contract since August, 1988.
On the day of the strike, the first ever in the district, almost half of the district’s 22,000 students were counted as absent.
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