RH Jones: Re: Orville teachers get pay cut in 36th year (Beacon, 04/30/2010)

From RH Jones, April 30, 2010

To all:

As I said once before, some employers must stay up at night trying to figure out how to burden our OH STRS. The Beacon reports that there is a teacher step increase in the 35^th year of $7,000. Then, to get them to retire, in the 36^th year of teaching they give them a big salary cut!

The STRS 35yr/88% hurts the older 1/3^rd of retired educators enough already. And the STRS now asks that we older retirees be penalized, perhaps illegally, with a 1% cut in our simple COLA. This coming after a previous cut in retiree’s HC/Rx, especially for retirees who now have to pay an antifamily penalty cut to the spousal and dependent coverage. Older retirees should be defended, not victimized.

RHJones, a retired STRS teacher member