The New York Archdiocese and the union representing 3,200 teachers at the 235 schools affiliated with the archdiocese have reached a contract settlement providing for an eleven percent raise. While the union gave up its opposition to a planned switch to a more restrictive health care provider, it won a concession from management to keep teacher health insurance payments at the current level---due in part, some believe, to sick-outs by union members at several schools (See WIT for Dec. 5, 2001). The Lay Faculty Association---which represents teachers at the ten high schools owned by the archdioceses, and is in the second week of a strike at nine of those schools (See WIT for Nov. 29, 2001)---has indicated a willingness to settle on terms similar to those won by the FCT.
See "Biggest Union of Teachers in Archdiocese Reaches Accord", ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times, December 10, 2001