The 900-member union for San Francisco school district custodians, cafeteria workers, and other staff members reached a contract agreement with the school
SEIU 1021 has been in contract negotiations with the San Francisco Unified School District for a year; earlier this month its membersSubscribe to our daily newsletterThe union was asking for 16 percent raises backdated to 2020, as its workers had not seen a new contract — nor pay increases — since then. It also wanted one-time bonuses of $3,000 and other salary modifications.
The union chapter’s president, for his part, said the agreement would include a pay raise, but not one large enough to bring school staff to parity with their city counterparts: A custodian employed by the San Francisco city government, for instance, has a base salary of“Our members will be receiving a decent raise to their pay even if it didn’t get us parity with our counterparts in the city, but it gets us closer,” said Rafael Picazo, the president for the union’s chapter of school district...
The compromise comes as the United Educators of San Francisco, which represents 6,500 teachers across the district, held a bargaining session on Monday night that saw significant movement, according to those present.A third labor group, the Building Trades and Construction Trades Council, which has some 80 members in the school district, has finished negotiating with the district and has asked a state body to intervene. Its members could, theoretically, strike at any time.
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