BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. — Representatives of the Neshaminy school board and a support staff negotiating team have reached a tentative agreement to keep current food service workers on staff, spokesman Chris Stanley said Sunday night.
The tentative deal, reached late last week, will enable district officials to meet their food service goals without having to outsource the cafeteria operations, he said.
Terms of the agreement were not released Sunday because the school board and food service staff members still have to approve it, Stanley said.
The food service workers are members of the Neshaminy Education Support Professionals Association. Part of the agreement reached by the board and NESPA in 2014 included a stipulation that the school directors could pursue outsourcing the cafeteria operations in an attempt to save money.
In recent months, cafeteria staff members voiced concerns at school board meetings about the prospect of having their jobs outsourced.
Board representatives and NESPA negotiators met a handful of times over the last weeks to try to find a way to keep that from happening, officials said.