Contract Settled for Madison School District Clerical and Technical Employees

Negotiators for the Madison Metropolitan School District and Madison Teachers Incorporated have reached tentative agreement today on the 1998-2000 Collective Bargaining Agreement covering the 300 clerical and technical employees of the school district. The Supportive Educational Employees (SEE-MTI) contract settlement includes a 3.25% salary increase in each year of the two-year contract, as well as an amended longevity schedule. The tentative settlement still needs to be ratified by the Board of Education and Union membership.

Members of the Union negotiating team described the contract negotiations as "the best in twenty years" in terms of both outcome and process. While the Union made improvements in salary and longevity pay, the District gained new cost-containment language regarding workers compensation benefits.

The SEE-MTI bargaining unit is a diverse Union made up of individuals in over sixty different job titles including school district secretarial and clerical staff, computer programers and technicians, family community liaisons, bi-lingual resource specialists and numerous other administrative support personnel.

Posted October 12, 1998