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Board implements arbitration award with retro pay limited to active union members and certain retirees
Summary
After an executive session, the New Haven Board of Education voted to implement an arbitration award and to provide retroactive compensation only to active employees who are members of Local 3429 and to employees retired on or before June 30, 2025, covered by the 2023–27 agreement.
Following an executive session, the New Haven Board of Education voted on July 28 to implement an arbitration award and to limit retroactive compensation to two groups: active employees who are members of Local 3429 and employees retired on or before June 30, 2025 who are covered by the July 1, 2023–June 30, 2027 agreement.
The nut graf: the motion that returned from executive session instructs district payroll to proceed with retroactive payments for active union members of Local 3429 and for retirees meeting the stated cutoff; the board recorded the motion as carried.
The board entered executive session earlier in the meeting "pursuant to Connecticut general statute 6 b and one-two 10 b to discuss the implementation of the arbitration award for Local 3429," according to the public record. Attorney Sierra McDonald attended the executive session. When the board returned, a motion was made to implement the arbitration award with the retroactive-pay limitations described above; the motion was moved and seconded and then put to a vote.
The board announced the motion carried. In the public roll call that followed, members answered in the affirmative when asked: "Mister Wilcock? Yes. Doctor Goinert? Yes. Flores? Yes." The chair stated the motion carried and moved to adjourn.
The meeting record does not show detailed dollar amounts for the retroactive payments, nor does it show whether staff outside Local 3429 will receive alternative relief; the board's motion as stated in the meeting record limits retroactive compensation to the two groups described above. The administration will proceed with payroll actions consistent with the board's motion and the applicable collective-bargaining agreement.
Ending note: the decision came after a closed-door discussion; the public transcript records the motion and that the motion carried but does not provide a line-by-line accounting of the retroactive-pay calculations or a complete roll call of every board member's vote in the public record.
