Unionized teachers at Wor-Wic Community College say they have a tentative contract offer in hand after months of negotiations with the school to raise their pay.
Late Tuesday, the school offered a three-year contract with the Wor-Wic Community College Faculty Association, or WWCCFA, according to spokeswoman Laura Paddack. Salaries would be renegotiated annually under the terms of the agreement. A union vote for contract ratification could come in the next two weeks.
The contract offer comes after more than a year of collective bargaining, where the union claims to have been stonewalled for months by the college in its effort to collectively bargain for raises. About 40 of 70 full-time Wor-Wic teachers are in the union.
Paddack alleges the school tried to run out the clock on the prescribed time to negotiate by spending an extended amount of time on non-economic items, like office hours, discharge, issuing technology, effective dates of items, the college technology committee, and days on campus.
Wor-Wic spokeswoman Gwenn Garland did not respond at press time to requests for comment.