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The Peabody teachers were in force at the recent School Committee meeting to express outrage at the continued delay tactics of the City regarding their contract. Read the Lynn Item story here.
Well it seems that the Salem News article concerning the delay of the teachers contract was not the whole story...
Read the Lynn Item story here.
It seems Peabody City officials have held up the contract for several days now pending corrections that need to be ironed out because the school committee was (apparently) NOT REALLY negotiating with the teachers union... it was only having polite discussions. The deal that was agreed to by all sides needed to be vetted by the City's Attorneys (and by others?) who were not in on the negotiations.
So the City allowed the teachers to take this "agreement" to their members for a vote - all the while knowing that they were not done "negotiating" with them.
This stinks worse than the old pig farms at Centennial Park. The teachers have every right to be REALLY PISSED OFF about this and the Mayor and the rest of the School Committee should be ashamed of this breech of public trust.
The citizens of Peabody DID NOT ELECT ANY OF YOU TO SCREW THE TEACHERS OUT OF A FAIR CONTRACT! This type of behavior only further alienates the administration from the people who work for the City.
And, by the way, these are the people who are REALLY going to be the ones setting a good example for the NEXT GENERATIONS of Peabody residents! I certainly hope that the BAD EXAMPLE being shown by Mayor Bonfanti, Mr. McGeney and the rest of the School Committee are NOT lessons our school children will learn... "Go ahead and take advantage of EVERYONE you can IF it saves you a dime!"
Time to stop this nonsense and SIGN THE CONTRACT. No more DELAYING in order to get some little concession by making the teachers sweat getting their BACK PAY before Christmas.
7 comments:
OG says...
this twist in the story is remarkable in that none of it was ever mentioned in the Salem News article! I am simply flabbergasted with it all. It is ludicrous and oh so unnecessary. OG happened to see Ms Katron at the high school tonight and in addition to being a fine teacher she is a sensible human being. We have sunk to a new negotiations low with this McGeney involved delay...and you all know that OG wanted to know about the specifics of this whole union negotiations sage from the beginning that has been hidden under the cloak of secrecy and the more I hear the lousier it all sounds.
McGeney thinks the teachers are angry they will not get their checks before Christmas. If this is not an elected official who is out of touch. Dave your right this has nothing to do with them working under an expired contract for more then a year.
Dave and Mike setup a meeting a sign the contract already. If it is 99.9% done sign the thing.
Keith, Why not tell the teachers the same thing? 99.9%- Sign the thing!
Teachers voted yes on it. I would say that means they will sign it when the Mayor and Dave stop playing games.
OG says...
do we know any of the facts associated with the fact that this contract has not been signed? no we do not. SO welcome back to the fray KD but if you demand action it may be wiser to have the facts first...it may not be as simple as it looks....but who really knows???? we (the taxpayers) are completely out of the loop until we hear the facts....that has been my primary complaint all along and most of you readily accept that reality...
OG I agree with you we are out of the loop. Until we start to ask, yell and scream for info we will be in the dark. I can only comment on what I read in the Mayor's newspaper, oh I mean the SEN.
OG says...
but that is the problem KD...we will not know the facts and the details until the contract is signed, sealed and delivered and ours !! and OG is tired of responding and/or discussing snippets that we read about in the newspaper....the real detail will only come out when it is a signed document.....in any event open up your wallet because taxes WILL be rising! the worst is yet to come.
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