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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't FCPS just say that now they have the lowest vacancy rate since during the school closures for Covid (no one was quitting that sweet gig).[/quote]

Yes, Reid has said they have their lowest vacancy rate. They also didn’t do anything to cut costs or target raises to high vacancy spots (I am guessing special ed teachers are still in that category). Instead they proposed a huge across the board raise for all their employees. I have no idea what the union was thinking when they bargained for that. Such a lost opportunity. I’m pretty sure the vast majority of residents would support good raises based on need as shown by vacancies, or at least for just teachers and other direct student-facing roles. Instead, central office employees who either make huge salaries or do purely administrative work would get the same raises as teachers! And the county told them the amount of money that was available and the school board still put forth a budget that blew that amount out of the water. Makes no sense.[/quote]

[b]The unions did not collectively bargain for an across the board increase. They bargained for their members, instructional and operational employees[/b], which are student facing work categories. Reid added in an across the board increase when she presented her budget.

And there are still plenty of school-based openings, despite the “low vacancy rate”:

https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm[/quote]

Why are people thinking they bargained for people not represented by the bargaining unit? Where is that idea coming from? [/quote]

I have seen zero push back from the union to Reid’s budget that extended the raises to all employees. Instead, the unions have fallen in line with Reid’s BS excellence at a crossroads PR campaign. I also don’t know why the union didn’t bargain for a step instead of a massive percentage raise?[/quote]

My spouse has dealt with unions a lot. During the push for collective bargaining rights, I asked whether this was a good thing or a bad thing for teachers. Spouse's reply: a good thing if the union is competent and a bad thing if it's incompetent. I wasn't aware that retirement was based on steps (if what a PP said is true) but if so, it sounds like the union is incompetent.[/quote]

Retirement is based on average salary of the top 3-5 consecutive years, depending on the plan, and the plan is determined by a teacher's hire date.  So anything that increases salary helps with retirement.  The problem with all of the step freezes that have occurred over the past 20 years is that we now have fourth year teachers making the same salary as first year teachers, 25 year veterans on step 20, etc.  A mix of step increases (to recognize experience, which also typically comes with more unpaid work load such as mentoring new teachers, being a team lead, etc.) and COLAs (to help keep pace with inflation) would be more equitable.[/quote]

I wasn't referring to what retirement was based on...

I am talking about what FCPS is contributing to your 403/401/457 plans now as you are building those plans....they go by what your step is, not what you are currently earning.

So when steps don't go up, neither do the contributions to our plans on FCPS's behalf. [/quote]

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