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Hatboro-Horsham Teachers’ Union Files Unfair Labor Practice
HHEA contends the Hatboro-Horsham School District has committed an unfair labor practice by refusing to bargain a key piece of health care
Today, the Hatboro-Horsham Education Association, PSEA (“HHEA”), the Union representing almost 400 teachers, school counselors, librarians, and nurses, announces the filing of an Unfair Labor Practice Charge against the Hatboro-Horsham School District.
“We’ve negotiated in good faith since January,” says Bryan Moore, HHEA President, “but now the District refuses to bargain over our health care benefit.” Under the rules of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, the state agency that enforces public employee labor law, bargaining over health care is a mandatory subject of bargaining.
For the past five years, the District has actually made a profit from the health insurance contributions made by its employees and the District stuffs those funds, estimated to be at least $4.5 million, back into its General Fund. The Union insists future health insurance costs are based on actual expenses, not on the District’s efforts to make a profit.
Says Bryan Moore, “Health care costs to the District have gone down but our costs are rising; we want to pay our fair share, but we’re not going to pay more than that. We just want a fair contract.”