HRM-586-64275
August 11, 2013
Since my current employer does not have a Union Agreement I decided to write about the Contract Extension Agreement between Akron City School District (Akron, New York 14001) and The Akron Faculty Association (July 1,2011-June 30,2014). The new agreement is the same as the 2007-2011agreement except for a few changes with the health care and compensation sections. The contract doesn’t enclose the specific amount of wages for positions but Article 8 of the agreement talks about compensation. Section 8.1 states that new hire teachers may be hired above and beyond Step I of the Bachelors or Master’s Degree schedules at the Superintendents discretion. Section 8.2 discusses salary schedule for teachers which are covered by this Agreement and the rules governing placement of teachers on such schedule, along with rules for method of salary payment for the current year, are set forth in the salary schedule contained herein. Section 8.4 states that Unit members who are 10 months employees, may elect to receive 21 or 22 or 26 or 27 salary payments for the September through June employment period. These salary payments shall commence with the first or second Friday of the school year. For those unit members who elect 26 or 27 salary payments option, the additional 5 checks shall be drawn and received with the last paycheck in June. Section 8 goes on to discuss compensation for extracurricular services, the band director, guidance counselors, audio-visual coordinator, teacher’s assistants and so forth. Section 8.8 covers Severance of Retirement Benefits. Any teacher meeting retirement eligibility in accordance with this Article or any teacher with permanent voluntary severance of duty with at least 20 years of service to the District shall receive: 8.8.1; A sum of $30.00 per day of accumulated sick leave credit to a maximum of 270 days ($8,100) beginning with the 2007school year. 8.8.2;