Nassau Group Faculty school members are pleading with lawmakers to cease a elevate of their well being care premiums.
The union that represents the professors says that the faculty is elevating premiums that might price a member and their household as a lot as $5,000 a 12 months.
“That is going to impose an enormous sacrifice and hardship on our school, partially on our junior school,” says union president Faren Siminoff.
Nassau Group Faculty says the state raised insurance coverage premiums and that beneath the college’s earlier contract, it needs to be handed on till one other contract is agreed upon.
The faculty’s labor lawyer informed Information 12 in an announcement, “As quickly as an settlement is reached, the duty to pay this extra premium will stop and college will solely pay any quantity the events negotiate.”
County legislators say they do not have a lot affect with the faculty.
Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello says they can’t inform the faculty to do one thing or to not do one thing with regards to collective bargaining.
College students on the faculty say they hope one thing can be finished for the nice of the college.
“Any faculty is barely as sturdy because the individuals who educate there,” says sophomore Ariel Silverman. “So, give the professors and by extension the scholars the most effective basis on which to construct their future desires.”
Each the college and the faculty say contract negotiations are ongoing.
