2/26/14 - The Brighton Area Schools District will be looking to hold the line on teacher and other employee contracts when it begins negotiations in the near future with its teachersâ union and hourly employees. Superintendent Greg Gray says the contracts of all three labor units in the school district expire this year and the district will soon begin negotiations with the two largest employee groups. They include the Brighton Education Association, which represents about 300 district teachers, and the Brighton Educational Support Personnel Association, representing over 100 hourly workers. The district recently reached tentative agreement with the Brighton Area Schools Administratorsâ Association, which represents about 20 principals, assistant principals and department directors in the school district. Gray tells WHMI that district negotiators have had no formal bargaining sessions with the BEA as yet. Gray says that the district will begin bargaining with BESPA within the next few weeks. He says the board of education will vote on the tentative agreement with the administratorsâ group at the next board meeting in two weeks. The contract is substantially the same as the current one, involving a pay freeze and a salary reopener after the 2014-15 year. (TT)
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