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Parents, teachers and classified staff urge Chatham County Schools to seek $2 hourly raise
Summary
Multiple speakers at the Chatham County Board of Education meeting urged the board to prioritize a $2-an-hour raise for classified employees, citing long hours, out-of-pocket job costs, recruitment and retention challenges and modest taxpayer cost estimates.
Speakers at a Chatham County Board of Education meeting pressed the board to prioritize pay and working-condition improvements for the district’s classified employees, asking the board to include a sustainable $2-per-hour raise in its funding proposal to the county.
Max Harmon, a carpentry and construction teacher at Jordan Matthews High School and a local union organizer, told the board that a $2 hourly raise for classified staff would cost the average Chatham County property taxpayer about $2 per month and would be “game changing” for workers who struggle economically. “We believe that that is something that we must do given the negligible amount for our taxpayers and the game changing amount of raise for our workers,” Harmon said.
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