Mn law mandating teacher contract settlement

Other unsettled contracts include Stillwater, Forest Lake and Farmington, according to statewide teachers’ union Education Minnesota.The average salary increase for metro schools has been a 2.2 percent increase in the first year and a 2.1 percent increase in the second, not including possible pay increases for experience and education, the union said.“I have not seen morale this low, ever,” Girard, an adapted physical education teacher, told the board in April.

It also does not require any party to admit they were at fault. The school board last month approved the settlement without any public discussion.In 1982 the leadership of unions and federations participating in unity talks nearly committed political suicide by proclaiming: "there is no basis for the formation of a federation of all unions represented at this stage.No further meeting is planned." Fortunately, taking into account the challenges faced by the labour movement, society and the need to defend ourselves against big business and the apartheid regime, further meetings took place and Cosatu was eventually formed.The district maintains it wants a “fair and affordable settlement,” according to Bloomington school district spokesman Rick Kaufman.Settling at the metro average wouldn’t be responsible financially, the district said.