Four-year agreement includes three per cent increase per year
Oct 31, 2008 - 01:09 PM
DURHAM -- The Catholic school board and its occasional teachers have agreed on a deal.
A tentative settlement for a renewed collective agreement was ratified recently between the Durham Local of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) Occasional Teachers and the Durham Catholic District School Board .
The contract includes a three per cent salary increase for each of its four years, no improvement to benefits, increases in the amount of people on the occasional teachers list, and improvements to health and safety issues. It expires Aug. 31, 2012.
The board agreed on the new contract at its Oct. 27 meeting, while the occasional teacher membership voted to accept it Oct. 23.
"This contract further promotes continued labour relations stability by balancing the needs of the board with the desires of occasional teachers for fair working conditions, which respect their contributions towards educating our students," said Pickering Trustee Jim McCafferty, the board's chairman.
Bill Stratton, president of the OECTA Occasional Teachers Local, said he was also pleased.
"The Durham occasional teachers look forward to the implementation of the terms of our new collective agreement with the board and to working together co-operatively for the well-being of the students we teach," Mr. Stratton said.
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