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Custodians urge board to make $3.50 hourly differential permanent; superintendent says budget includes it
Summary
Several SEIU members urged the Jefferson County Board of Education to make a $3.50 hourly differential permanent after federal funds that supported the stipend ran out. Superintendent said the $3.50 is included in the district's proposed budget for next year; the board will vote on the tentative budget in May.
Members of SEIU Local 32BJ told the Jefferson County Board of Education on April 8 that a $3.50 hourly differential for custodians and hourly plant operators has been critical to workers' pay and asked the board to make the stipend permanent after federal funding ended.
"If we lost that $3.50, that would be over a $7,000 decrease in our yearly earnings," Jonathan Ward, a JCPS custodian and SEIU member,…
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