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Duarte educators urge board to direct negotiators to settle contract; union says members lack raises, face higher health costs
Summary
DUEA representatives and teachers told the board that district educators began the school year without a contract and urged the board to instruct negotiators to accept union proposals to raise pay, cap health-cost increases and reduce class sizes.
Union leaders and teachers asked the Duarte Unified School District Board of Education on Thursday to direct the district's bargaining team to accept proposals the union says are necessary to recruit and retain teachers.
Andrew Thill, a fifth-grade teacher at Beardsley Dual Language Academy and the DUEA negotiations lead, told the board that educators have been working without a contract since the first day of the school year and that 97% of union members signed postcards urging the board…
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