Nassau Neighborhood School school pleads for cease to extend in well being care premiums

Nassau Neighborhood School school members are pleading with lawmakers to cease a increase 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 Neighborhood School says the state raised insurance coverage premiums and that below the college’s earlier contract, it needs to be handed on till one other contract is agreed upon.

The school’s labor legal professional informed Information 12 in a press release, “As quickly as an settlement is reached, the duty to pay this extra premium will stop and school 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 in the case of collective bargaining.

College students on the school say they hope one thing can be performed for the great of the college.

“Any school is just as robust because the individuals who educate there,” says sophomore Ariel Silverman. “So, give the professors and by extension the scholars one of the best basis on which to construct their future desires.”

Each the college and the faculty say contract negotiations are ongoing.