After a tense summer of salary negotiations, members of the Salt Lake City teachers union voted this week to accept a tentative agreement with the school district to raise annual pay for all its educators by 4.1%.
The bump was lower than what teachers had asked for and smaller than the increases at surrounding districts in the county. But many saw it as a way to move forward after threats of a strike.
“People are back in school and things are moving and teachers are just ready to get back to concentrating on teaching their lessons,” said James Tobler, president of the Salt Lake Education Association, who helped broker the compromise.