For the first time in memory, the Board of Education for
Bridgewater-Raritan Schools (the Board) has disclosed details of its ongoing salary
and benefit negotiations with the teachers’ union, the Bridgewater-Raritan
Education Association (BREA).
Since February, both parties have been locked in secret
negotiations, according to a release on the
Board’s web site, the highlights of which follow:
The BREA seeks a three-year contract under which the Board
has offered salary increases of 3.25%, 2.9%, and 2.9%, for years one, two and
three respectively, for a cumulative three-year increase of 9.05%.
However, since multi-year salary increases are compounded
over time, the Board’s actual three-year salary proposal to the BREA is 9.33%.
