The support staff for Dearborn Public Schools rejected the district’s latest contract offer on Sunday. Although it’s not a surprise to many observers, the move will spur a round of layoffs that could take effect within the next few days.The Dearborn Federation of School Employees (DFSE) cited the proposed pay cuts as the primary reason for their refusal to sign on. The new contract would demand employees take a 6.3 percent pay cut this year, with further cuts throughout the length of the agreement. Longer step increases and higher health plan co-pays were among other concessions the district asked of the DFSE. The union defeated the contract by over 100 votes.
The DFSE represents non-educational staff throughout the school system, such as bus drivers, custodial personnel, secretaries, para-professionals and food service workers. All told, the union covers about 1,150 employees.
Talks will continue between the union and the district, but in the meantime, the School Board will begin compiling a list of employees who could be pink-slipped almost immediately.
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One major part of this story is missing. Over 170 of the DFSE employees do not work for Dearborn Public Schools (P12) but for Henry Ford College. They work under a separate administration and are paid from an entirely separate budget. They had been told that they had to take the P12 paycuts, even though the paycuts would not send one penny to help the Dearborn Schools and were not being sought by HFCC Administration. (HFCC and P12 budgets are separate and money cannot be sent from one to the other to help correct a budget deficit).They were looking for contract language that would reflect this situation. In effect these 170 employees work for a different employer under a different budget. There was a general unwillingness on the part of Administration and the union to recoginize this fact, thus these 170 votes made the difference in the voting.
There is a much more detailed discussion of this at www.splittsville.com
Many children cried yesterday as staff that they loved had to leave them. So much blame and no one willing to take responsibility.
IS IT true that the $40,000 phones also commit DPS to pay all monthly charges both domestic and abroad for all administrators that have been given thephones?
DPS
Is it true that the contract of all of the $40,000 phones also commit
DPS to pay all monthly charges incured by their users?
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