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Teachers urge board to press district negotiators on health-care cost sharing as salary agreements move forward
Summary
Union leaders and classroom teachers told the board that steep health-premium increases are leaving teachers with effective pay cuts; the board approved multiple salary agreements while teachers pressed for better benefit contributions.
Multiple teachers and union leaders used the public-comment period at the Oct. 16 Windsor Unified board meeting to press the district for higher employer contributions to health insurance, saying skyrocketing premiums have eroded compensation even when salaries rise.
Teachers described personal impacts during public comment. Maggie Koshner, a teacher at Cali, said her family of four is on her district health plan and that a 197% increase in her healthcare premium over four years would leave her taking a pay cut if she moved from 80% to 100% assignment next year. “The weight of the increase should not be borne entirely on the shoulders of the school counselors and the…
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