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Pay Equity Study Produces Gains

Jamestown Community College support staff win equity increase.

Sixty-four members of the 118-member NEA-affiliated higher education staff association at Jamestown Community College in New York will be receiving pay increases of between $200 and $1,600 annually, thanks to the efforts of their local negotiators and NEA.

The local NEA affiliate and the college had agreed in earlier negotiations to set aside money for pay equity adjustments. Following up on the agreement, NEA pay equity experts cooperated with the college to create a fairer pay schedule.

NEA began conducting pay equity studies in the 1980s, after a pay equity resolution was adopted at the NEA Representative Assembly.

The survey at Jamestown evaluated the skill, effort, and responsibilities of support personnel jobs. Comparing these findings to the classification system and wages, the evaluators found inequities. Steps were then taken to begin the process of correcting the inequities.

THE NEA 1999 TAX GUIDE offers tips for educators. This general guide on income taxes for the 1999 tax year provides straight-forward explanations of federal and state income tax laws, including answers to the questions educators ask most frequently.

Even if you use a commercial tax preparer, this special guide can help you determine whether your preparer is covering all the deductions to which you're entitled. The guide is available free at www.nea.org/teaching/taxguide.pdf.

The 2000 NEA Higher Education Almanac will be posted on the NEA Higher Education Web site in early March.

Topics this year include innovative bargaining, higher education staff and cost containment, challenges for higher ed faculty and staff in an era of performance-based funding, along with full-time faculty salary data from higher education institutions across the nation.

All of this information and data will be fully downloadable from the NEA Higher Education Web site at www.nea.org/he.

If you wish a printed copy of the 2000 NEA Higher Education Almanac, contact the NEA Higher Education Office: highered@nea.org.

NEA is revising its part-time and temporary faculty policies and seeks input from higher ed members. Send your comments and suggestions to highered@nea.org.