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Vol. 76 No. 38 September 22, 1976
Teachers’ strike threatening
The possibility of a
teachers’ strike in Donegal
School District seems more
likely as we go to press
Tuesday morning.
In a new development,
the School Board has re-
vealed the size of its ‘‘final
offer’’ to the teachers: a
$110,00 total salary in-
crease (about 7 percent).
The offer is for a one year
contract.
Teachers rejected that
offer on Tuesday, Sept. 14,
and voted to authorize a
strike ‘‘whenever neces-
sary.”’
Since the board has
publicly announced that its
offer of $110,000 was
“final,””. a strike seems
quite likely. One remaining
ground for compromise is
the possibility of a more
generous 2-year settlement.
Informed sources say
that little agreement has
been reached on other
negotiating items like
fringe benefits and working
conditions. The teachers
are asking that their pay be
raised close to the Lancas-
ter County average. Done-
gal teacher are among the
county’s lowest paid.
If the teachers do strike,
the courts will probably
order them back to work in
a few weeks or less. The
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court action will end the
strike since teachers who
disobey the order can be
fired.
There is almost no
chance that Donegal teach-
ers will disobey a court
order. The main purpose of
teacher strikes is to gener-
ate publicity for the teach-
ers’ point of view.
Graduation might be de-
layed a few days since the
state requires schools to
. operate 180 days a year.
Teachers are unlikely to
lose any pay since judges
always order striking
teachers back to work in
time to finish the school
year.
Final offer to teachers revealed
The Donegal School
Board has released the
following statement.
The board of school
directors of the Donegal
District believes it is
obligated to inform the
public that a final offer on
a 1 year contract was made
to the Donegal Education
Association and rejected on
September 14th. The con-
tents of that offer included
several options for im-
provement of salary from
$700 to $900 together with
improvements in _hospital-
medical- and life insurance
benefits.
These increases in life
insurance and hospital-
medical benefits would be
in addition to the current
fringe benefit package pre-
sently costing $222,600 a
year. This offer could pro-
vide an average increase of
$850 in salary. This pack-
age represents a 7% in-
crease which was allocated
in the 1976-77 budget. The
$110,000 cost of this offer
amounts to 7 mills of real
estate tax, which is the
amount of the millage in-
crease for the current dis-
trict budget.
Greider explains teachers’ view
‘‘Donegal teachers don’t
want a strike,”’ teacher’s
unien president Ted Greid-
er said in an interview last
week.
Ted is the president of
the Donegal Education As-
sociation, which represents
the teachers of Donegal
School District. The teach-
ers recently authorized
their negotiators to call a
strike ‘‘whenever neces-
sary.”
Ted explains that the
teachers will strike ‘‘only if
they believe that the School
Board is no longer negoti-
ating in good faith. We
hope that point never
comes.”’
The union has not made
public their demands, but
the teachers’ basic goal is
no secret. ‘‘We want the
average that teachers in
the county are getting,”
Ted Greider says.
‘““No one in the county
has settled for a package as
low as what our board
wants to give us. In fact, 1
don’t know if anyone has
offered that little.” he
says.
“It’s tough to come back
and say, ‘You're not worth
what the other teachers are
worth,’’’ he adds.
“We have a good staff,”
he continues. He points out
that Donegal always wins
the lion’s share of prizes in
the county Science Fair,
and that the mid-states
evaluation program gave
Donegal’s social studies
department an almost per-
fect rating.
Donegal teachers also
work longer days than most
teachers. ‘‘The taxpayer is
getting more for his dollar
from Donegal teachers than
most taxpayers are, ’’ Ted
Greider says.
Pointing out that Done-
gal administrators are a-
mong the highest paid in
the county, Greider says,
“We feel that if we can
be number one for admin-
istration, we can at least be
in the middle of the pack
for teachers.”
A starting teacher at
Donegal earns $7,500 a
year. The county average is
$8,800 (not counting Done-
gal, which pulls the aver-
age down.) The average
teacher in Donegal earns
$11,500.
Ted Greider says,
‘““When the Board gets
bills, prices are going up.
They have to pay them.
They don’t have any
choice.”
“The only place they
have a say is teachers.
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Plan to light fields
Mrs. Vivian Carroll of
the Donegal Adults’ Boost-
er Club has announced a
project to install lights on
the athletic fields behind
Donegal High. The group
plans to solicit $12,000 for
the project.
Lights could be used for
night games by the tennis,
baseball, football, soccer
and track teams. The lights
will also be useful for band
marching.
Mrs. Carroll hopes all
students and parents will
get involved in the project.
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Ambulance crew members Mary Hoffmaster, Rose Grove and Nettie Germer tend
fireman Leo Shank, who was ‘‘electrocuted’’ in the mock accident staged by
Friendship Fire Co. last Sunday.
Firemen learn at fake accident
Friendship Fire Co.
staged a mock ‘‘accident”
last Sunday to give their
fire and ambulance crews a
chance to practice.
A two-car ‘‘crash” was
staged near the water tank
in Mount Joy. One car was
set afire with a gallon of
Charcoal lighter.
Inside the other car were
4 volunteer ‘‘victims,”’ in-
cluding Bill Hall, John
Hall, Andy Raudabaugh,
and Lancaster fireman
Kent Leid.
“It was a little scary
when they set the other car
on fire,’ one young volun-
teer admitted.
An electric cord, repre-
senting a downed power
line was draped over the
car containing the ‘‘vic-
tims.”” When a fireman
began spraying the burning
car, he was ‘‘electrocut-
ed.”
Barb Hedrick added a
note of realism by playing
the part of an hysterical
forts. Chris Snyder, who _
helped ‘‘restrain’’ Barb
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mother who interferes with
the firemen’s rescue ef-
One car was set ablaze in the mock accident. The
Friendship firemen want to thank 5 locai busuiessmen
whose free services made the training exercise possible.
Abe Weidman of Mount Joy Citgo and Earl and Jack’s
Auto Parts provided the cars. George Greiner's garage
towed the wrecked vehicles. :