Chicago Public Schools is proposing a 16% wage enhance for lecturers and workers over the subsequent 5 years in a brand new contract with the Chicago Teachers Union, the district introduced Monday.
The proposed pay elevate carefully follows suggestions launched by an unbiased reality finder, and quantities to a complete enhance of $351 million in trainer salaries, based on an announcement from CPS.
The district may also suggest that the five-year contract assure no healthcare contribution will increase for the primary two years, and restrict will increase through the subsequent three years to only one p.c, in accordance with the actual fact finder suggestion, the assertion stated.
The unbiased reality finder was chosen by each CPS and the lecturers union to evaluate wants on each side and make suggestions for a good contract primarily based on testimony and an evaluation of the district’s monetary scenario. Bargaining groups representing each side proceed to satisfy to work in direction of a contract settlement.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot stated within the assertion that town “hopes to finalize an agreement on a contract that fairly and generously compensates their service before the start of the school year,” which begins Sept. 3.