![]() Of that amount, only 2.5% comes in the form of general wage increases (“GWI”) while the remaining 6.51% is the result of annual step-movement for teachers not on the top step of Woodbridge’s new fifteen-step salary scale. The Award results in a total teachers’ salary account increase of 9.01% over three years. While every arbitration award turns on its own set of facts, the Woodbridge Award should be of interest to boards of education across Connecticut for several reasons.įirst (and maybe foremost) is the money. Arbitrators Michael Ricci (the neutral arbitrator), Gail McKinley-Anderson (the union arbitrator) and John Romanow (the management arbitrator) comprised the interest arbitration panel. The award addresses successor collective bargaining agreement negotiations for the Woodbridge teachers. ![]() ![]() The first interest arbitration award was made public several weeks ago. While, as to be expected, the overwhelming majority of contracts up for negotiation so far have settled at either the negotiation or mediation phases of the Teacher Negotiation Act process, contract negotiations in several communities have reached binding interest arbitration – the TNA’s dispute resolution procedure for when boards of education and teacher or administrators’ unions can’t reach a settlement at the bargaining table. The 2019-20 certified teachers’ and administrators’ negotiation season is just about at the halfway mark.
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