SOUTH BEND — Full-time security professionals at South Bend schools will receive a new minimum hourly wage of $20 per hour under a newly approved agreement between the district and Teamsters Local 264.
This comes after the SBCSC board voted to recognize full-time security personnel as a bargaining unit in late May.
On Monday, June 15, the board approved a memorandum of understanding between SBCSC and the union establishing the new minimum pay rate retroactively to Jan. 1, 2026, through July 31, 2028. According to the agreement, security staff will receive an additional 20 cents per hour for each verified full-time benefit-eligible year of service with SBCSC, also retroactive to the beginning of the year.
And effective July 1, 2027, all security professionals will receive another 50-cent-per-hour increase, the agreement says.
Although SBCSC officials did not say how much security staff made before the agreement was approved, SBCSC’s page on Indeed says security officers in the district earn $14.10 per hour.
The approval is part of a larger trend seen recently within SBCSC of recognizing various groups of employees as new bargaining units with Teamsters Local 364. The board previously voted to recognize the district’s bilingual specialists as a union, and trustees also approved a move to include instructional aides and kindergarten aides in the paraprofessionals’ bargaining unit.
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