Lordstown school employees get new contract

LORDSTOWN

The village school district has approved a contract with its 22 non-teaching employees that includes the same three-year wage freeze and improvement in the health care that was approved by teachers last May.

Superintendent Bill Pfahler said the board ratified the contract 5-0 after the union, Local 774 of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees, approved it earlier Wednesday.

The contract is retroactive to August 2009 and runs through July 2012. It covers secretaries, bus drivers, maintenance and custodial workers and cafeteria staff.

On the low end of the wage scale, cafeteria workers make between $11.77 and $16.06 per hour. On the high end, bus mechanics make between $16.02 and $19.25 per hour.

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