You can help protect the pay and benefits and retain our custodians and food service employees
The
custodial/food service employees need your support. The School Board wants to drastically reduce
their wages and benefits to below a “living wage.” Now is the time for ACTION!
These
employees’ contract expired in June 2012.
Traditional negotiations for a successor agreement came to a halt when three
bids came in to outsource the custodial services. Talks then shifted in response to the Board’s
interest in saving money. After a great
deal of research, the Association recently presented the Board with ways to
reorganize staff and increase efficiency of operations for a potential savings
of approximately $300,000. These
proposals would have preserved bargaining unit staff at their current wages and
benefits.
The
Association’s proposals to save in the ballpark of $300,000 were rejected by
the Board in a recent meeting. Instead,
the Board proposed cutting not only custodial, but also food service, wages and
benefits to generate a savings comparable to the $300,000.
As we plan
our next steps for community and Association Member support we will need to
keep in frequent contact with you. Please connect with us:
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Find us on Facebook “Scarborough
Education Association”
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Follow our blog:
http://scarborougheducationassociation.blogspot.com/
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Follow us on twitter: SEA_Maine
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Email us: seamaine@gmail.com and we
can add your personal email to a distribution list
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Let us know if you need paper copies
of information mailed to your home. Leave a message at 730-4600 with your
address.
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Talk to other staff members, parents and community members
about the importance of keeping our schools safe for students and staff with
valuable employees we know and who are invested in their jobs.
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Write
to and call the Scarborough School Board members and tell them you do not
support their consideration to drastically cut wages and benefits for the
custodial/food service staff and that you do support paying school
employees a living wage comparable with other school communities in the
area. As taxpayers and/or an Association
member show your support for quality employees and the safety of staff,
students and community members in your schools.
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Please make your
voice heard and contact your Board members today:
Board
Members, Email Address and Phone
Numbers
Christine
Massengill cmassengill@scarborough.k12.me.us 885-1288
John
Cole jcole@scarborough.k12.me.us 239-0268
Aymie
Hardesty ahardesty@scarborough.k12.me.us 883-5742
Donna
Beeley dbeeley@scarborough.k12.me.us 883-3993
Jacquelyn
Perry jperry@scarborough.k12.me.us 883-2451
Kelly
Murphy kmurphy@scarborough.k12.me.us 883-9610
Christopher
Caiazzo ccaiazzo@scarborough.k12.me.us 883-6482
Sadie
Tirrell, Junior High School Student Representative
Katherine
Elliot, Senior High School Student Representative
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All Board
members receive post mail at the following address: Scarborough School Department; Attn: “school board member’s name”; P.O. Box
370; Scarborough, ME; 04070-0370.
The community
support we build throughout this crisis will be critical to keeping our fellow
employees in good jobs with a living wages and benefits. Please join us in
keeping the Association strong and prevent the loss of the jobs of fellow
employees we count on every day to keep our school safe and running smoothly.
More suggestions and actions will be posted on this blog. With the support from members, taxpayers and the general public we can beat this plan which would result in the loss of our valued staff.Crystal Goodrich
SEA President