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Thursday, May 7, 197010c per copyA teachers’ strike was avertedin Bethpage Monday, but the president of the teachers’ union warned that this might only mean the strike would be postponed until next week.Meanwhile, the district’s professional negotiator assailed the union chief for “bargaining inthe newspapers” and held out hope that a settlement would be reached without a strike.AnAnrHintf in nninn ProciHpntpaid.”Murphy’s figures showed that teachers at the B.A. level receive roughly median salaries. However, they depicted Beth-page teachers with graduate credits and degrees, and withs to 10 years experience, as a few hundred dollars below theMurphy declared that the union proposals would not make Betb-page first in any categories, but only “competitive.”He expressed hope that the Board would move at leasttoward a 9 percent raise, settlement it reportedlymedian, and generally about$1,000 below the top According to Murphy, most career teachers move beyond the1*•with service employees.A1 DiMaria, the Board’sprofessional negotiator, presented the Board’s case only after learning of Marphr’s state-
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Bethpage Tribune
Bethpage, New York, US
Thu, May 07, 1970
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