Last Best Offers Presented; Out-of-Pocket Costs Remain Key Difference
October 26, 2021
Your team and the VSBA bargainers submitted their last best offers ahead of a scheduled arbitration hearing the week of November 1. You’ll remember that when this process started, the VSBA team made it clear that they wanted to make healthcare more expensive, less accessible, and, for our lowest-paid school employees – mostly women – simply out of reach.
Below you’ll see that your team has worked hard to prevent thousands of school employees from losing their health insurance. The VSBA team and your bargainers still disagree on the issue of out-of-pocket costs, where the VSBA team continues to try and force school employees to pay more for their healthcare, even as the pandemic rages on.