TUSTIN : Tentative Contract Calls for 9.4% Raise

The tentative three-year contract between the Tustin Educators Assn. and the Tustin Unified School District would give teachers a 9.4% average salary increase retroactive to July 1, 1989. Pay increases for the first year in the contract would depend on teachers’ levels of education and length of time with the district, but no teacher would receive an increase of less than 5%.

Increases for the second and third years of the contract would depend on the state funds that the district receives for each student. The agreement stipulates, however, that if the average teacher’s salary in Tustin isn’t in the top five of the 12 unified school districts in the county, salary levels are to be increased by a maximum of 1%.

The tentative agreement, reached last week, also includes a statement that no reprisals will be taken against either party as a result of any labor-dispute activities. The district earlier this month mailed a letter to teachers stating that skipping open houses and boycotting homework assignments, as some teachers had done, were unfair labor practices that might result in reprisals.

Teachers were to receive details of the contract proposals Monday and are scheduled to vote on the agreement Friday. The contract will be presented to the board of education May 21.