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Stockton School Employees Get Ford 'Mourning' Pay

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Aug 14, 2008 3:51 pm US/Pacific

Stockton School Employees Get Ford 'Mourning' Pay

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Stockton Unified School District employees finally are getting paid for mourning the death of President Gerald Ford.

The school board has approved a $139,000 compensation package to pay several hundred support-staff employees who worked on Jan. 2, 2007, which President Bush had declared a "National Day of Mourning."

According to union representatives, contract language says that employees are entitled to holiday pay on official days of mourning. After the union filed a grievance, the school board voted Tuesday to pay employees.

A spokesman for the school district said the decision came down to language: If Bush had declared a day of "recognition," the holiday pay would not apply.