Contract Negotiations

The City of Boise and the Firefighters Union are negotiating a new labor contract. At issue is how much firefighters should be paid.Last year, the average…

The Nampa School District and its teachers’ union, the Nampa Education Association (NEA), could not reach an agreement Friday on next year’s contract…

Untenable, harmful, devastating; three adjectives Nampa Education Association president Mandy Simpson uses in response to the school district's contract…

Nampa teachers’ union representatives sat down this morning to negotiate with a district hired attorney. They were expecting to talk about furlough days…

Each year the state of Idaho sends school districts about $900 million for teacher salaries and benefits. This is the time of year when decisions are made…

Monday is the last day that school districts and teachers can discuss contracts. Many districts have come down to the wire. In the state’s largest…

Many school districts in Idaho are negotiating teacher contracts. And because of the Students Come First education laws that passed last year, those…

The Nampa school district is short about two and a half million dollars for next year. The district and the local teachers’ union are trying to find a way…