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Plainfield 202 Custodians Respond to New Agreement

The Plainfield School District #202 board of education and the Plainfield Association of Support Staff have reached an agreement in negotiations that will prevent the school district from outsourcing its custodial staff to a private, for-profit company. The following statement may be attributed to PASS President John Piechocinski.

“The agreement we’ve reached with the school board is bittersweet at best. Yes. we have preserved the jobs of our dedicated school custodial staff. But we did so by reducing salaries and sick leave, and by cutting the number of employees who are currently available to serve the students and schools.Some of the long-term employees had their pay reduced by 15 to 20 percent. Other custodial salaries were frozen. These kinds of reductions will make  attracting and retaining great employees a more difficult challenge in the future.

With that said, we want to assure the community of Plainfield that we will continue to provide the very best of service to our schools. We are dedicated employees who care about students, parents and the entire school community. We have appreciated the support we have received from so many. We look forward to continuing our service in the future,”

Today’s results from today’s voting are as follows:

121 voting

113 voted to accept the proposal

8 voted no to accept the proposal

This will be finalized by Board action at the School Board meeting on Monday May 9.

Insurance open enrollment will be begin on Tuesday for the custodians after the School Board officially recalls those that were RIFed..

Notice to All PASS Members

The PASS Negotiation Team has reached a tentative agreement with the District regarding the custodian outsourcing. There will be a membership meeting on Saturday, May 7^th at 10:00 am at Plainfield Central High School, Main Cafeteria. There will be a presentation regarding the timeline of negotiations and the tentative agreement on custodian outsourcing will be presented. All custodians are asked to be present to vote on the agreement. Although this pertains only to custodians, all members are invited to attend. Voting will be by custodians only. Please be prompt in order to receive all information needed to decide your vote!

Successor contract talks are still ongoing. The next scheduled negotiation meeting is set for May 18th.

Sent on behalf of the PASS Negotiating Team

Monday April 18

This morning at the beginning of bargaining your PASS Bargaining Team asked the Board/Administration “What are your interests so that we can get the outsourcing issue off the table.” They gave no response and that they would have to go back as a team and discuss it.

Proposals were exchanged on the following topics:

5.1  Performance Evaluations

Respectful Work Environment

7.2a  Bereavement Leave

7.3  Personal/Religious/Military/Disaster Leave

7.4 Vacation

One tentative agreement was reached on 7.3 with the addition of one word to clarify current practice.

After the morning closed session, your PASS Bargaining team came forward with a verbal supposal with regard to saving the District approximately 1 million dollars. The Board took our supposal  under advisement to discuss at our next negotiation meeting scheduled for April 27th. In addition, PASS offered two additional bargaining dates prior to the April 27th which were declined by the Board.

PASS asked Administration and the Board if there would be any action taken on the issue of outsourcing at the April 25th Board Meeting. Board President Michelle Smith stated “The Board will not be taking any action or vote on that date.” There will be a public hearing at 6:30 to hear comments with a 7:30 Board meeting to follow.

WE NEED ALL PASS MEMBERS to join together to rally at the District Office on Monday, April 25th at 5:30 pm . The Public hearing is at 6:30 followed by the Board meeting at 7:30. WEAR RED TO SUPPORT PASS!!!!