​â¶Ä‹â€‹SAN JOSE, CA – The County Superintendent of Schools and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521 recently reached an agreement on a new three-year contract, effective September 1, 2016 and ending August 31, 2019. A public hearing on the disclosure of the collective bargaining agreement will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 13 in the Superintendent's Conference Room at 1290 Ridder Park Drive in San Jose.
Highlights from the agreement include scheduled salary increases of 5 percent, 4 percent, and 3 percent for the 2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19 school years respectively; and an increased cap on medical benefits from $1050 to $1071 monthly, effective from October 1, 2016. A committee will be convened to study the conversion to tiered medical benefit plans.
​The agreement does contain contingency language that if the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) from the state is less than 1 percent in either year one or two, that salary increases would go back to negotiations. Other parts of the three-year agreement address longevity and stipends.
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