·         YOUR PAY INCREASE: THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING YOUR NESPA NEGOTIATING TEAM!

·         CHECK YOUR TIME SHEET, TO BE SURE YOU ARE BEING PAID CORRECTLY.

Our newly negotiated and ratified 2013-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement has pay increases and/or annual step increases for everyone---no matter how long they have been in Northshore.   This includes paraeducator substitutes, whose pay went from $14 per hour to $14.72 per hour.  

For those who have been “stuck” at the top step (Steps 5 and 15), the raises are especially welcome, with only pennies of an increase in the previous 3 years.  

For those who have been stuck at step 5 for years, there is a new step 10, with an increase of $1.02 per hour.   For a 6.5 hour employee, that’s an annual increase of $1,266.   You can get to step 10 in BEFORE the start of your 10^th year, if you started higher than step 1 when you were hired.     See the link for the explanation---and check your time card to be sure that you are placed on Step 10 if you should be. 

Everyone at Step 5 last year should go to either the new Step 6 or the new Step 10. 

For those at the 15 year longevity step, there is an increase of  $1.03 per hour, or about $1,279 per year for a 6.5 hour employee.  You get to Step 15 at the start of the year following your 14^th year in NESPA, even if you complete your 14^th year by Dec. 31.  (There is no change in how you get to the 15 year longevity step.)  

In other words, one advances to step 10 very differently than to step 15.   Step 10 can take 9 or fewer year, depending on the step you started at.  Step 15 takes 14 years in NESPA, no matter what step you started at.

Here is the link to the new salary schedule.  Salary Schedules.  It includes last year’s salary schedule so you can determine where you were, and where you should be.    Check your time sheet to be sure you are being paid correctly.  

Nice Surprise in Your Pay Check September 30?

Did you notice the pay raise on the check you got today?  The pay increase is one of the positives your contract negotiating team achieved this year in our new contract.

Your Contract Vote Results

At the Contract Vote meeting on Monday, August 26, the NESPA membership ratified a new 2 year contract by a vote of 94% in favor.  THANK YOU to the NESPA Bargaining Team and to all of the NESPA members who participated in this effort. 

 

The new contract includes pay increases, including a new Step 6 and 10, and an increase for substitutes.   The contract describes the uses of early release, offers collaboration with the administration on professional development, improvements in the transfer process, and more.    Details will be posted soon, and the new contracts will be printed within the next few weeks.