Not only do Detroit teachers not get a paltry pay raise [[1%) for three years, but I saw this in the proposed contract:
Termination Incentive Plan

Beginning January 12, 2010 and ending with the fourth [[4th) pay of the 2011-2012
school year [[for a total of 40 payments), all salaried members of the bargaining unit
[[except assistant attendance officers, accompanists and members who work less than
.50 FTE) shall have $250 per pay deducted from their pay and deposited into a
Termination Incentive Plan [[TIP) account. [[Deductions shall not be made for the four
[[4) summer checks for members on 26 pays – checks numbered 23-26). A total of all
deposits into an individual member’s TIP account shall be shown on the member’s pay
stub. Assistant attendance officers, accompanists, members who work less than .50
FTE, hourly and daily rated members shall not be required to pay into the TIP account
but shall have the option of doing so.

2009 Termination Incentive Payment

Bargaining unit members who retire or resign from the District following ratification of
the 2009-2012 Agreement shall receive a Termination of Service Bonus of one-
thousand dollars [[$1,000) for each year of service with the District up to ten [[10) years
of service, with a cap of $10,000. Bargaining unit members on layoff status shall not be
entitled to this Bonus until such time as they are removed from the layoff list pursuant to
Article Fifteen. However, no member’s Termination of Service Bonus shall exceed the
amount he/she contributed to his/her TIP account pursuant to Article Nine, Section B.

Members may elect to have their Termination of Service Bonus paid as a lump sum,
deposited into an annuity, or deposited into a Tax Deferred Plan [[TDP).

Sounds like a big ol' heaping pile of bullspit to me! Perhaps Keith Johnson is the one who needs to be terminated if this is how he did his constituency. You can download the contract at this link: http://mi.aft.org/dft231/index.cfm?a...4-464cbecfcf76