SOUTH HADLEY — Staff members at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School (PVPA) have reached their first labor contract with the school, according to the local union chapter.
Under the three-year contract, staff members at the charter school have access to a formal grievance procedure, protections for performance evaluations and disciplines, and correction of “a longstanding inequity in the pay scale,” according to United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) Local 2322 Servicing Representative Karen Rosenberg. Staff members formally unionized under the UAW in February 2018.