Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Teachers will receive bumps in salary this year and next after negotiations were reopened in accordance with their current contract with the District 86 board.
The District 86 Board of Education approved Monday night an agreement with the district’s teachers’ union that will provide pay bumps for the current school year and 2013-14. Board members came out of a closed-session discussion following their regular business meeting at Hinsdale South High School and voted 6-1 to approve the agreement with the Hinsdale High School Teachers Association (HHSTA), one that had been under negotiation since last spring. READ: D86 Teachers Show Solidarity Amid Salary Negotiations The Doings reported that, under Monday’s agreement, teachers at the top of their pay grade who did not receive a “step” increase this year will get a .5 percent raise for the current school year, retroactive to July 1. Those who …
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The current District 86 teachers contract covers four years, but allows for the reopening of salary and benefits negotiations after the first two.
District 86 teachers have made several public shows of solidarity recently as they negotiate with district officials salaries and benefits for the current and next school years. The current four-year contract between Hinsdale Township High School District 86 and the Hinsdale High School Teachers Association (HHSTA) began with the 2010-11 school year and runs through the 2013-14 school year. A clause in the contract, however, allowed for the reopening of negotiations on salary, extra-duty compensation and health insurance for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years. "Anything to do with salary and benefits," Superintendent Nick Wahl said of what's up for negotiation. Those negotiations were reopened last spring and there have since been …
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The contract was ratified last week by the teachers union and will be in place until June 2014.
The public back-and-forth between District 181’s teachers and board regarding labor negotiations began with a bunch of blue t-shirts in August and it ended Monday night at Elm School with only a few comments. Eleven days after it was announced that the District 181 Board of Education had reached an agreement with the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers’ Association on a new contract, the board unanimously approved a three-year deal containing a base-salary freeze for teachers during the current school year. The contract was ratified by the teachers last week, according to HCHTA President Justin Horne. Board vice president Glenn Yaeger filled in as board president Monday in the physical absence of Michael Nelson, who attended the meeting via…
Friday, October 7, 2011
The last mediated session took place Sept. 15, when the teachers submitted a new offer with reduced salary demands.
The District 181 Board of Education will resume mediated negotiation with the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers' Association (HCHTA) at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 12, according to an email from district communications director Rita DuChateau. HCHTA President Justin Horne said at the board's last meeting the uncertainty caused by the ongoing stalemate is a negative force. "It is in the best interest of the entire District 181 community that these contract negotiations come to a conclusion," Horne said. At the last negotiation session Sept. 15, the union submitted an offer that contained the same base salary and step increases it originally desired, but only in the second half of each of the first two years. During the first half of those two…
Thursday, September 29, 2011
District parent says wearing the shirts at school inappropriately involves children in the negotiation process; union president says the shirts are meant to encourage school spirit.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
For the first time in a month, the board-union stalemate was not front and center at Monday's board meeting.
District 181 Board President Michael Nelson said at Monday night's board meeting that the board hopes to get back into mediated negotiation with the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers' Association (HCHTA) on Thursday, Oct. 6. According to Nelson, the two sides had originally planned to continue working on a new teachers' contract some time in mid-October. HCHTA President Justin Horne spoke Monday and said the uncertainty caused by the ongoing stalemate is a negative force. "It is in the best interest of the entire District 181 community that these contract negotiations come to a conclusion," Horne said. Horne said last week that the board and union had a mediated session on Sept. 15. There, the union submitted a new offer that contained the…
Thursday, September 22, 2011
HCHTA president said the latest offer contains hard freezes for the first half of each of the first two years.
As negotiations with the District 181 Board of Education on a new contract continue, a group of about 15 selected parents and PTO presidents attended an informational meeting with members of the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers’ Association (HCHTA) Wednesday night at The Community House in Hinsdale, according to HCHTA President Justin Horne. Horne said over the phone Thursday that the point of the meeting was to give parents information about the negotiation process and present the HCHTA's perspective. Horne sent an email to the press earlier in the day that said, “We wanted to keep the meeting small so that the parents would feel comfortable asking questions and sharing opinions. We are always open to make time for other parents that …
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Locked in so-far-fruitless mediation with the school board, the HCHTA's offer was favored by most of the public commenters at Monday night's board meeting.
The teachers’ choice to leave their blue shirts at home wasn’t the only thing that made Monday’s District 181 Board of Education meeting feel different from the last. Supporters of the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers’ Association (HCHTA) in the ongoing negotiations stalemate with the board were more vocal, as well. Eight of the 13 people who stepped to the microphone during the public comment section of Monday’s meeting to voice an opinion on the ongoing negotiations stalemate between the board and the HCHTA spoke in support of the teachers’ union. At the Aug. 22 meeting of the board, only two of five speakers backed the union and one of them was HCTHA President Justin Horne, a fifth-grade teacher at The Lane Elementary School. Three …
Monday, September 12, 2011
The board and the teachers' union are still locked in a negotiating stalemate, so expect another lively public comment session.
The Community Consolidated School District 181 Board of Education has a Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night at Monroe School, where a public hearing on the district's proposed fiscal year 2012 budget and another blue-clad teacher crowd could turn up. The board has yet to come to an agreement with the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers' Association (HCHTA) on a new teachers contract. At the board's Aug. 22 meeting, several hundred district teachers donning blue shirts cheered HCHTA President Justin Horne as he outlined the union's proposal, which would ask for only step increases in the first year and a 1.75 percent raise plus step increases in year two. At the same meeting, Board President Michael Nelson made public the board's …
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The teachers' union president says a "vocal minority" is standing in the way of a deal, while the board president says he wants a "market-based" compensation package.
The lid came off what had been quiet negotiations between the District 181 Board of Education and the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers’ Association (HCHTA) Monday night. District teachers donning blue t-shirts filled the gym at Elm School in Burr Ridge during a regular business meeting of the board two days before the current contract between the district and teachers is set to expire. They cheered in support of HCHTA President Justin Horne when he read from a prepared statement during public comment and stood with hands raised when Horne asked if they supported the union’s offer. The district and union had previously been mum on points of contention between the two parties during what has been, according to Board President Michael Nelson…
jill quinones
10:31 pm on Friday, September 23, 2011
Here is the link on the D181 website: http://www.d181.org/about-district-181/departments/human-resources/index.aspx It has both the teacher (HCHTA) and Support Staff (HESS) contracts. The steps in the teacher contract are in Appendix D. remember a teacher "steps" from year to year so you have to look at 2 consecutive salary schedules to determine the step impact (rise). You will see at all levels… more ›