Salary freezes across the board have been common... not sure where the author found evidence that «savings has been passed on to good teachers.»
Not exact matches
According to Statistics Canada, wages and
salaries totalled $ 42.8 billion last year
across the components of Ontarioâ $ ™ s public sector subject to the
freeze policy.
A one - year
salary freeze, she added, would be «a beginning, and it's a shot
across the bow at organized labor, which has to date been uncompromising.»
They have already voted no to
across the board teacher
salary increases and continued the
freeze on teachers»
salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.
Teachers received a 1 % rise last year, after two years of
salary freezes, in line with the general 1 % pay cap
across the public sector.
... as drafted, the proposed legislation not only sets the stage for
across the board wage
freezes and restrictions on individual
salary movement within range, but is also broad enough to allow for compensation reductions as well as a host of changes to non-compensation provisions of collective agreements.