Wednesday, April 7, 1978
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Talks await teacher pay proposal
By CAROL LUMAN
Staff Writer
School officials in Lawrence District 497 say contract negotiations have been going slowly but should pick up soon when the teachers make a salary proposal.
"You really have to talk about money before you get things moving." Jack Brand, chief negotiator for the district, said yesterday. "Normally, we don't get much done until the teachers come in with their financial proposals."
Both men said negotiations had centered on issues other than salary.
Tony Gauthier, chief negotiator for the teachers, said the teacher group had been studying the salary issue and might make a salary proposal today.
"RIGHT WE'RE just working toward an understanding between the two sides."
The principal issue the Lawrence Education Association (LEA) is concerned with at this time, Gauthier said, is its desire to provide the school board as a professional unit.
The school board and LEA exchanged packages of proposals the first week in December. The first bargaining session was in the third week of January.
Since that time, there have been weekly negotiation sessions. The sessions are on Tuesday or Wednesday and alternate between afternoon and evening meetings.
"We're looking for a contract which will recognize our status as professionals," Gaubert said. "We would also like to enhance our monetary rewards for our contributions."
Another issue the teachers and school board disagree on is planning time for children to participate in the arts.
"THERE IS A SERIOUS difference of opinion on how much planning time elementary teachers should have," Gauthier said.
The LEA thinks elementary teachers should have one hour a day for planning; the school board wants to stick with the schedule of one-half hour per day, he said.
"This is not right," Gauthier said. "Those people cannot do their job well if they are not."
Another issue which the two sides disagree on is parent teacher conferences days.
Gauthier said the teachers wanted more freedom to schedule conferences on the day set aside for that purpose. They also disagree with administration requests that contractors have a say in they leave the building during a time in which they have no scheduled conferences.
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"The teachers don't need to be herded." Gauthier said. "They are professionals."
He said that although the negotiation meetings had frequently involved controversy, they were give-and-take where controversy should be expected.
"Jack Brand and I understand each other pretty well," Gauthier said. "There's going to be controversy, but I think it's productive controversy.
"The beauty of it is that together we can
same direction, contract than either
side (alone) could we."
GAUTHER SAID HE was strongly in
support of deadlocked
negotiation into arbitration.
"We see it as a device that would force both sides to be more reasonable," he said. "It would prevent either side from interacting, so they have a monopoly on what's right."
However, Brand said, the school board disagreed with the teachers that compulsory arbitration in the case of deadlocked negotiations was a good thing.
With the process of compulsory arbitration, Brand said, arbitrators would be negotiating for the same thing in each case. If he were to eventually make them all alike.
HE SAID IT HAD been the experience of other states that had adopted this legislation that all school districts' similar education programs were similar over a period of about 10 years.
This, he said, would destroy the citizen input and the diversity in the school system. "We're going to need more," he said.
ONE OF THE MORE important matters on the job is that he is on professional development he said.
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"I think the teachers have very competent negotiating people," he said. "And I think they (the negotiations) have been very friendly."
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