Contract is reached in the Salem schools

SALEM -- The Salem Board of Education and its nonteaching workers have agreed to a new four-year contract. Board President Elizabeth Thatcher said Tuesday that the contract is retroactive to July 1, 2005.
Workers will take a wage freeze for the first three years. Union members will also begin to pay a portion -- 10 percent -- of their health insurance.
The vote by the members of Local 215 of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees was 59-9 in favor of the pact. The district is still negotiating with its teachers.