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Old 03-10-2018, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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All the WV teachers asked for were CoL raises and not to have their pay CUT.

They haven't gotten raises in years and were promised to get them when the recession was over. It's been over for a while now. The 5% increase does something although does not catch up completely.

They also asked that their pay not be CUT because of health care. The state was trying to raise their health care cost and give a pittance raise of 1% on salary, which was a pay CUT. They've been dealing with no salary raise but increased premium and deductible costs for years.

The heart of the matter was health care. As I've said before on other threads: as a country, we must get health care under control or it will eat up ALL the money eventually.
Arizona is the same way. Besides Prop 123 which is still challenged and district specific votes (as most finding is from a state level, not municipality level) teachers have been getting just 1% when wages weren't frozen. There was a lawsuit that was settled but the state stopped the settlement because they don't have the money to pay the schools back. This was done by our governor who at the time was the treasurer.
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Old 03-10-2018, 08:45 PM
 
Location: TN/NC
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Yes, but the flip side of this is that government employment is also subject to a statutory wage ceiling.
That's a drag in area's with healthy economies. I moved to Des Moines, IA in 2012. I was completely shocked at how much higher payscales were in the private sector compared to Tennessee. Teaching wasn't so lucrative, relatively speaking, there. In podunk WV, teachers may be the most highly paid employees in town other than healthcare workers.

The 5% raise is virtually unheard of. I work for the only hospital system in my region. Our raises this past year were 2% max.
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Old 03-10-2018, 08:47 PM
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Location: NC/SC Border Patrol
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Pretty much any district’s pay scale is available online.
Then why hasn't the news reported it. We have to have the worst news reporters EVER IN HISTORY.
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Old 03-11-2018, 11:52 AM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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That's a drag in area's with healthy economies. I moved to Des Moines, IA in 2012. I was completely shocked at how much higher payscales were in the private sector compared to Tennessee. Teaching wasn't so lucrative, relatively speaking, there. In podunk WV, teachers may be the most highly paid employees in town other than healthcare workers.

The 5% raise is virtually unheard of. I work for the only hospital system in my region. Our raises this past year were 2% max.
But here is the problem. They had a wage freeze and then only got 1% raises, if that.
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