Neshaminy: Teachers late with new contract offer
Union leaders said they would submit written offer last week. Next negotiating session is Wednesday.
The Neshaminy Federation of Teachers is late with a written proposal that the union said it would submit last week, the Neshaminy School Board said this morning.
With the next negotiating session scheduled for Wednesday, the board is concerned that the talks "will not be as productive as they could have been," the board said in a written statement.
At the Aug. 29 session, the union modified its most recent proposal verbally, "which will be reduced to writing in the next several days," NFT President Louise Boyd said at the time.
Today, Boyd said in an e-mail that the union had explained and repeated the revised offer and that the district's negotiators "felt they understood." The NFT lawyer's schedule and the holiday delayed the written version, she said.
Neither side has disclosed the terms that were being adjusted.
The two sides have been negotiating this contract since January 2008. Last week, the district started its fourth school year without a contract with the 700 teachers and staff members, in what is the longest current impasse in the state.