Capistrano Unified's 3-Year Contract with Teamsters - Horrible Deal for Students!

At a time when the Capistrano Unified School District states that it has insufficient funds to pay for art, music and science, insufficient funds to reduce class sizes, to fix and maintain facilities CUSD is going to give teamsters an additional $1 million in compensation increases over the next three years.

The Tentative Agreement does the following:

$204,875 Salary Schedule Increase of 4% retroactive to 2015

$102,395 Step & Column Salary Increase 4%

$ 46,218 Statutory Benefit Increase 4%

$ 50,890 Health & Welfare Benefit Increase .67%

Total Compensation Increase $306,078 for 102 employees

That is a compensation increase of $3,000 per employee.

Average Compensation if this agreement is approved will be $74,470

and:

Pay the actual cost of employee medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits:

• HMO - family $15,204.00

• POS/PPO - family $18,522.70

* Any employee who averages 7.5 hours per day in a pay period that includes bid hours, additional hours, but not over-time, shall have their health insurance benefits based on full-time coverage for the remainder of the bid year.

If CSEA or CUEA receives an on-going salary schedule increase and/or a one time off schedule bonus the District will provide a comparable adjustment.

Wow! Is there really anyone representing taxpayers or students in these negotiations?

Just FYI- Unfunded pensions liabilities have increased from $49 million in 2012-13 to $57 million last year- are we looking at $60 million if this passes?