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Gilroy teachers press board for livable wages and smaller classes as bargaining talks falter
Summary
Gilroy Teachers Association members and parents urged the board to halt program changes, enforce caseload limits and approve pay and class-size improvements that the union says management has refused to negotiate; no formal district action on salary or class-size changes was taken at the meeting.
Haley Saldana, lead negotiator for the Gilroy Teachers Association, told the board at its Feb. 12 meeting that the union came to the table with compromise proposals on class size, caseloads and pay but found no corresponding offers from district management.
"It would take a 14% salary increase for us to be average in Santa Clara County," Saldana said, adding that the union was asking the board to direct management toward a 7% increase. She said the union's class-size and caseload proposals would not exceed county averages.
The union and several classroom teachers and parents used the public-comment…
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