A Few Thoughts about Salary Increases & Benefits

While reading through the two statements that were released to the public last night, one from the Bridgewater-Raritan Board of Education, and the other from its counterpart, the teachers’ union, I began to think of how upside down these negotiations must seem to anyone taking the time to read the press releases.
 
If you haven’t yet ploughed through them, please do so.  They are well worth the reading, I assure you.
 
Several thoughts occurred to me, as I was preparing to post the statements to this blog today:

·         These talks have gone on far too long.

·         The mediation sessions are a hindrance, not a help.

·         The average person with an average job would salivate at the offers which have been described in one of those press releases.

·         It’s time to kick out the mediator and to do what should have happened long ago:  Get in a room by yourselves, lock the door, and don’t come out until you have a deal.

·         Don’t forget to take it easy on the rest of us who have to pay the bills.

 
There is more, but I wanted to keep this post brief.