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Union presses Milwaukee Public Schools for full CPI as district cites $46 million shortfall
Summary
During a bargaining session, union representatives for MTEA disputed district claims it cannot afford a full cost-of-living increase, called for line-by-line financial backup and a written plan for a proposed $25 million class-size reduction; the district said it will provide detailed costing spreadsheets and pivot tables and asked for a counterproposal within a 2.63% CPI ceiling.
A union representative for the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association (MTEA) challenged Milwaukee Public Schools' assertion that it cannot afford a full cost-of-living adjustment (CPI) for represented workers, saying the district has room in its budget and asking for detailed financial backup during a bargaining session.
The union speaker said the district has "been spending funds freely," pointed to about 26 recent wage reclassifications and "hundreds of millions in contracts," and asked administrators to show how savings could be found without cutting frontline workers. "If an organization of this size can't resolve a 2% overspend, there are bigger problems here," the union representative said, citing a $46,000,000 structural deficit the parties have been discussing.
District staff acknowledged the $46 million structural deficit and said the current bargaining focus is limited by a 2.63%…
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