Morgan Hill Unified’s board of education unanimously approved two contract offers made by district leadership to its classified union workers and its managerial employee group at the Jan. 17 school board meeting.
The two organizations must now bring the figures back to its members for a vote.
The Classified Employees of MHUSD (formerly SEIU 521) have been offered a 6 percent pay increase to their 2016-17 salary schedule retroactive to July 1, 2016 and a 3 percent increase to the 2017-18 salary schedule effective July 1, 2017.
By a vote of 137-75, the classified workers, which includes bus drivers, kitchen and office staff, and janitors decertified from the Service Employees International Union 521. They currently have 314 members with 213 casting votes, according to member Danielle Nunez. The unit was expected to elect officers and site representatives Jan. 24.
“It took a year,” said Nunez of the decertification process. “It was a long fought battle.”
MHUSD’s Morgan Hill Educational Leaders Association, which represents the classified managers, psychologists, principals and district office managers, was issued similar contract parameters with a 6 percent raise to its 2016-17 salary schedule, retroactive to July 1, 2016, and 3 percent to the 2017-18 salary schedule, effective July 1, 2017.
MHUSD’s third bargaining unit, the Morgan Hill Federation of Teachers, has yet to come to an agreement with the district in their contract negotiations and both sides are scheduled to meet again with a mediator for a second time in late February.
