The Council of School Supervisors & Administrators (CSA) is a New York City based collective bargaining unit for principals, assistant principals, supervisors and education administrators who work in the New York City public schools and directors and assistant directors who work in city-funded day care.
CSA contracts also often cover some non-members, known as agency fee payers, which usually number comparatively about 2% of the size of the union's membership.
In March, 1962, the Board of Education gave the Council de facto recognition and issued a written policy statement recognizing the supervisors' right to present their views regarding their salaries, hours and working conditions.
By 1963, the council's representative in Albany secured passage of a mandatory supervisory salary index in New York City, which was then extended in 1964 to include elementary, junior and senior high school principals across the state.
The memorandum called for monthly consultations between the CSA and the Superintendent of Schools—and at least once a year with the Board of Education—on matters of educational policy, working conditions, salary schedules, and grievance procedures.
The agreement, the first comprehensive contract for school supervisors in the United States, ran for a three-year term beginning October 1, 1969.
The contract negotiated with the Board of Education in September, 1976, gave CSA the right to take a grievance dispute to final and binding arbitration.
Successor agreements in 1978 include substantial cost of living adjustments, bonus monies, eight percent raises over the life of the contract, additional sabbaticals, and the elimination of 26 hours of conference time for all tenured supervisors.
Academy Award-winning actor and AFL–CIO member Susan Sarandon introduced AFL–CIO president Richard Trumka, who addressed the guests on the importance of unions and labor in trying economic times, and discussed his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election.
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