Nearly two dozen San Francisco teachers remained entrenched inside the public school district headquarters Tuesday, pledging not to leave until a computer glitch that has led to missing or partial paychecks is corrected.
The teachers, armed with sleeping bags and food, moved into the San Francisco Unified Districts offices last night. Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews eventually showed up and began with an apology.“There is no way that any of you should have had to come down here with sleeping bags to say ‘pay us,’ that just shouldn’t happen,” Matthews said.
But when UESF union president Cassondra Curiel demanded the problems be fixed by the Wednesday pay period, Matthews replied in was a work in progress. “To hear that the system is getting fixed, there is just so much trust lost in the system itself and how it operates that it’s just one of those situations that you’re only going to believe it when you see it,” Curiel said. “But, we can’t rely on that – we can’t wait to believe our paycheck is going to come.”
The teachers then settled in for the night, unrolling their sleeping bags and awoke Tuesday determined to continue their ‘sleep in.’“Last night was just the beginning,” Curiel said in a news release. “We will stay as long as it takes for SFUSD to pay every educator what they are owed…In the new year, educators and other district workers have been unpaid and underpaid as well as benefits and other pay-related issues.
The issues with paychecks began when the district transitioned to a new payroll system in January. Matthews said 15 extra district employees were now trying to get teachers paid and sort out the computer system mess. District officials have cut over 800 off-cycle checks, but there were still more waiting on payment.“As we heard last night from management, it’s always tomorrow sometime soon,” Cymanski said. “We’re here to say it’s not tomorrow anymore it’s today.
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