On February 02, 2023, the Broward Teachers Union Education Professionals (BTU-EP) ratified the tentative agreement. The vote was 94.2% FOR and 5.8% AGAINST. The School Board will ratify the tentative agreements at its February 7th meeting. Salary increases will be retroactive to July 1, 2022.
Tentative Agreement Reached
On January 17, 2023, the Broward Teachers Union Education Professionals (BTU-EP) and Broward County Public Schools reached a tentative agreement for 2022-23 salaries and two contract articles. A ratification vote will take place on a date to be announced.
2022-23 SALARY INCREASES (retroactive to July 1, 2022)
- Highly Effective: 5.00% salary increase
- Effective: 3.75% salary increase
- Grandfathered: 4.00% salary increase
- One-time Bonus: $1,000
- Starting Salary: Per § 1012.22, Florida Statutes, the annual increase to the minimum base salary shall not be less than 75% of the adjustment for an employee on the grandfathered salary schedule.
NOTE: Florida State Statute 1012.22-5b requires that raises for Highly Effective PFP teachers must be 25% higher than teachers on the grandfathered scale, and that raises for Effective PFP teachers must be 50-75% of the raise a Highly Effective PFP teacher receives.
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ARTICLE 6 GENERAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
D. COVERING CLASSES
- Increases teacher pay for covering classes for an absent employee to $55.
- This increase is retroactive to January 9, 2023.
ARTICLE 36 TERMS OF AGREEMENT
- Establishes the duration of the EP Collective Bargaining Agreement, effective through June 29, 2025.
- Includes reopeners for salary and insurance, and up to two additional articles, for each school year for the duration of the contract.
View Tentative Agreements
SALARY
The District rejected BTU's proposal, and instead proposed the following salary increases:
- Highly Effective: 3.69% salary increase
- Effective: 2.77% salary increase
- Grandfathered: 2.95% salary increase
- Cost of Living Adjustment: 1%
- One-time Bonus: $1,000
Starting Salary: Per § 1012.22, Florida Statutes, the annual increase to the minimum base salary shall not be less than 75% of the adjustment for an employee on the grandfathered salary schedule.
The BTU rejected the District's proposal again, and countered with the following:
- Highly Effective: 6.25% salary increase
- Effective: 4.69% salary increase
- Grandfathered: 5% salary increase
- One-Time Bonus: $2,000
Starting Salary: Per §1012.22, Florida Statutes, the annual increase to the minimum base salary shall not be less than 75% of the adjustment for an employee on the grandfathered salary schedule.
SLP CRITICAL STAFFING SHORTAGE
The parties made proposals regarding the critical SLP staffing shortages, and agreed to continue to address this serious issue in committee.
ARTICLE 30 – MISCELLANEOUS
BTU proposed eliminating language that would require modifying contract language in certain situations.
At the December 14th negotiations session for 2022-23, the following occurred:
SALARY
The District rejected BTU's proposal, and re-presented their November 29th proposal:
- Highly Effective: 4.93% salary increase
- Effective: 3.69% salary increase
- Grandfathered: 3.94% salary increase
- Cost of Living Adjustment: 0%
- One-time Bonus: $1,000
- Starting Salary: Per § 1012.22, Florida Statutes, the annual increase to the minimum base salary shall not be less than 75% of the adjustment for an employee on the grandfathered salary schedule.
The BTU rejected the District's proposal again, and countered with the following:
- Highly Effective: 6.56% salary increase
- Effective: 4.92% salary increase
- Grandfathered: 5.25% salary increase
- Cost Of Living Adjustment: 2.35%
- One-Time Bonus: $2,500
- Starting Salary: Per §1012.22, Florida Statutes, the annual increase to the minimum base salary shall not be less than 75% of the adjustment for an employee on the grandfathered salary schedule.
The District is taking BTU’s Salary counterproposal back to the School Board for a closed-door session by Dec. 20. The time and place of the next bargaining session will be determined.
At the November 29th negotiations session for 2022-23, the following occurred:
ARTICLE SIX, SECTION D - GENERAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
The District accepted BTU’s offer to increase teacher pay for covering classes for an absent employee to $55 and both sides signed a tentative agreement.
SALARY
The District proposed the following salary increases:
- Highly Effective: 4.93% salary increase
- Effective: 3.69% salary increase
- Grandfathered: 3.94% salary increase
- Cost of Living Adjustment: 0%
- One-time Bonus: $1,000
- Starting Salary: Per § 1012.22, Florida Statutes, the annual increase to the minimum base salary shall not be less than 75% of the adjustment for an employee on the grandfathered salary schedule.
The BTU rejected their proposal, and countered with the following:
- Highly Effective: 6.88% salary increase
- Effective: 5.16% salary increase
- Grandfathered: 5.5% salary increase
- Cost Of Living Adjustment: 2.07%
- One-Time Bonus: $2,500
- Starting Salary: Per §1012.22, Florida Statutes, the annual increase to the minimum base salary shall not be less than 75% of the adjustment for an employee on the grandfathered salary schedule.
The District is taking BTU’s Salary counterproposals back to the School Board for a closed-door session by Dec. 13
The next bargaining session will be Wednesday, December 14th at BTU @ 12:30.
This week's negotiations session has been cancelled due to the current school board being unwilling to hold a "close door" meeting to provide direction to the District's labor negotiating team.
The session will be rescheduled to 9:00 am at BTU on November 29th.
The District came to the table with a salary counterproposal to BTU's original proposal on May 9, 2022.
District Proposed:
SALARY
- 3.34% salary increase for all grandfathered teachers
- Salary increases for Pay for Performance (PFP) teachers ranging from 3.13 to 4.18% depending upon whether the teacher is Effective or Highly Effective
BTU rejected this offer, offering counterproposals that incorporate a new State Statute, 1012.22, which took effect on July 1, 2022.
BTU Proposed:
SALARY
- Highly Effective PFP teachers: 7.25% raise
- Effective PFP teachers: 4.35% raise
- Grandfathered teachers: 5.8% raise
COLA
In addition,
BTU proposed that all teachers receive an additional 2.175% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA).
Rationale:
The new State Statute stipulates that Highly Effective PFP teachers must have a pay raise 25% higher than teachers on the grandfathered scale, and that Effective PFP teachers must have a pay increase of 50 – 75% of any pay raise a teacher on the grandfathered scale receives.
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Example: If a grandfathered teacher receives a $1,000 pay increase, a Highly Effective PFP teacher must receive $1,250, and an Effective PFP teacher, $500-$750.
A second new State Statute stipulates that we can also ask for a COLA. The COLA for any grandfathered or Highly Effective PFP teacher must be equal to 50% of the raise that Effective PFP teachers receive.
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Example: If an Effective PFP teacher gets a $500 raise, all grandfathered or PFP teachers must receive a $250 COLA.
Also at the May 6, 2022 session BTU propsed changes to ARTICLE SIX GENERAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES ( Section C Substitutes and Section D Covering Classes.)
The District did not offer a counter proposal yet.
The District is taking BTU’s Salary and COLA counterproposals back to the School Board for further action.
The next bargaining session will be on November 17th at BTU.
EP Ratification Vote - August 09
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The ratification vote on the MOU outlining the distribution of referendum funds to Education Professionals for the 2022-23 school year will take place 8 AM to 5 PM on Tuesday, August 09, 2022.
WHO VOTES? All members of EP bargaining unit regardless of BTU membership will vote on the tentative agreement summarized in the July 27, 2022 entry below AND specified in the tentative agreement linked to above.
PROCESS: Watch your Broward Schools email inbox (or the primary email address you have on file in the ESS system) for your ballot on Tuesday morning, August 09 beginning at 8 am. You may vote until 5:00 PM. The email will be from invitations@mail.electionbuddy.com.
NOTE:
Your voter ID belongs ONLY to you. DO NOT FORWARD YOUR BALLOT TO ANYONE. The ballot only be used by one person. If someone forwards a ballot email to you, do not attempt to use that voter ID. Every bargaining unit member will receive his or her own ballot.
If you do not receive your ballot by noon that day (not before) please send an email requesting a new ballot to communications@btuonline.com
The results will be announced to the entire bargaining unit shortly after the close of voting. If approved, the School Board will vote on ratification at a special School Board meeting..
We encourage you to read the entire text of the tentative agreements linked to above before casting your vote. On behalf of your negotiations team, we urge you to vote "yes" to ratify the MOU and agreements.
Tentative agreement was reached with the District on their offer of a Referendum supplement for 2022-23 to all EPs.
Every educator in the EP unit will receive a referendum supplement of between $1,500 and $9,200. Members of the EP bargaining unit will vote on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on this proposal.
NOTE: This is the final year of the four year referendum that was passed in 2018 and is not dependent upon August 23rd Vote to increase the referendum and extend it for four more years beginning in 2023.
Next meeting will be held on Thursday, August 25th at 1:00 pm at BTU.
At the opening session of the 2022-23, ground rules were shared and agreed upon and BTU presented and explained proposals which will be further discussed at the next session on a date to be announced.
BTU Proposed:
- ARTICLE SIX GENERAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES proposed changes to Section C Substitutes and Section D Covering Classes.
Section C would increase daily rate by $55 for studio teachers, school counselors, psychometrists, guidance directors, psychologists, school social workers, speech language pathologists, ESE specialists, media specialists who are asked to provide coverage for colleagues on those days when asked to perform an assignment of the absent employee.
Section D would increase hourly rate by $55 for employees who volunteer to provide coverage during their non-scheduled time when no substitutes are available. Employees who accept a portion of the students assigned to an absent employee would have an increase by $55 to their daily rate. (Both of these would be an increase from $25.)
- BTU Salary Proposal 2022-23 proposes a seven and a half percent (7.5%) aggregate increase to the cost of the current salary schedule, effective July 1, 2022. This increase is in addition to any amounts required to maintain prior increases from the Teacher Salary Increase Allocation Funds in Section 1011.62(18). Florida Statutes. Distribution and allocation are subject to further negotiations.
BTU Requested
- Costouts of Referendum Funding (2022-23) to determine a proposal for Distribution
The next session will be held at a time and place to be announced.
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