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It/ takes money from the pockets of new teachers to reward seniority.” His concern, as Lane’s, was that application of the scale to a stable budget total would greatly reduce salaries available for new teachers. “The teachers would take it in the neck for several years,” he said. ’“There would be a cut' in every step up to nine years.”
While his figures differed from Lane’s, Eastham said they presented “the same nightmare.” “It’s the amount of money that’s important to teachers, anyway,” he said, “not the relationship to the base.”
In addition, Eastham said, the index would “stonewall the movement for accountability, setting up a system like the federal civil service, where just waiting achieves benefits.”
In addition, Eastham said, an index plan should not include all employees, the timing of the index vote when revenue figures were not known was bad, and the index increases in this particular schedule were arbitrary. “I vote to reject this plan,” he said. “If a miracle occurs, we can consider the plan again."
In the second round of arguments, Eastham added that the teachers began to push for the plan when the inflation rate began to decrease. “I predict a 4.5 percent inflation rate for this year,” he said. “In the past, we have tied our increases to the rate of inflation. When it appeared last spring that inflation would not rise so
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