US EditionDublin Teachers Go on Strike After 11th-Hour Negotiations Fail
More than 700 teachers strike over pay, healthcare, and class sizes after contract talks collapse; district cites $11 million cost difference, schools open with substitutes.
- On Monday morning, the Dublin Teachers Association began striking as more than 700 DUSD teachers picketed all 13 DUSD schools after contract talks failed.
- After three days of negotiations, union negotiators sought a 3.5% salary increase, expanded healthcare, smaller classes including a 20-student transitional kindergarten cap.
- School sites will remain open Monday on an adjusted schedule with site principals and qualified guest teachers using detailed lesson plans, and lunches provided for more than 12,000 students.
- District officials warned, 'We are disappointed that we were not able to reach an agreement with the Dublin Teachers Association. We've been at it for the past three days trying to seek resolution and compromise', said Matt Campbell, assistant superintendent of educational services.
- The union's president said talks could resume soon, and Monica Lewis warned, 'You are probably going to receive an email soon from them with an astronomical cost attached to our lowered bargaining proposals from today.
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Dublin teachers begin strike after late negotiations fail
Dublin teachers begin strike after late negotiations fail Dublin teachers began walking the picket line on Monday after late Sunday negotiations with the district failed to produce an agreement. Veronica Macias reports. The post Dublin teachers begin strike after late negotiations fail appeared first on KION Central Coast.
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