On Tuesday, August 24, the Plain Dealer published an article about the RIF notices given to all Strongsville
SEA spokesman Fred Dillon wrote the following letter to the Plain Dealer in response to a misrepresentation in the article:
Dear Ms. Starzyk,
My name is Fred Dillon. I am the official spokesman for the Strongsville
Education Association. I want you to be aware of my being in this position in
case you have questions about the ongoing contract negotiations between the
Strongsville Board of Education and the SEA.
I am writing to forward a letter from one of my colleagues about your recent
article about theRIF notices given to the entire teaching staff of the Strongsville City Schools.
"Thank you for your coverage of the potential layoffs in theStrongsville City
School District , but I would like to make you aware of a misleading, and
potentially damaging, statement you wrote in the article "Strongsville
face layoffs--a year from now." You wrote that the district cut costs by
"negotiating health care savings in contracts with non-teaching employees."
This statement implies that the same isn't true for teaching employees;
however, just one year ago, teachers made health care concessions for the
purpose of saving the district money that are equal to or greater than the
non-teaching employees made. Some of these concessions have cost individual
teachers thousands of dollars a year, and they most definitely have helped the
district cut costs. Teachers have also researched and suggested alternative
health care plans that would save the district even more money, but the district
has not discussed these options. I would request that this statement be
corrected to reflect that teachers have already negotiated health care savings
so that the teachers of this district are not unfairly portrayed in the media,
no matter how unintentionally."
Thank you for your time. Please do not hesitate to contact me with further
questions. For more information, please visit our website, http://strongsvilleeducators.blogspot.com/
Fred Dillon
Strongsville Education Association Spokesman
My name is Fred Dillon. I am the official spokesman for the Strongsville
Education Association. I want you to be aware of my being in this position in
case you have questions about the ongoing contract negotiations between the
Strongsville Board of Education and the SEA.
I am writing to forward a letter from one of my colleagues about your recent
article about the
"Thank you for your coverage of the potential layoffs in the
potentially damaging, statement you wrote in the article "
face layoffs--a year from now." You wrote that the district cut costs by
"negotiating health care savings in contracts with non-teaching employees."
This statement implies that the same isn't true for teaching employees;
however, just one year ago, teachers made health care concessions for the
purpose of saving the district money that are equal to or greater than the
non-teaching employees made. Some of these concessions have cost individual
teachers thousands of dollars a year, and they most definitely have helped the
district cut costs. Teachers have also researched and suggested alternative
health care plans that would save the district even more money, but the district
has not discussed these options. I would request that this statement be
corrected to reflect that teachers have already negotiated health care savings
so that the teachers of this district are not unfairly portrayed in the media,
no matter how unintentionally."
Thank you for your time. Please do not hesitate to contact me with further
questions. For more information, please visit our website, http://strongsvilleeducators.blogspot.com/
Fred Dillon
Strongsville Education Association Spokesman
