Editorial: Avoiding strike raises teachers' reputation burlingtonfreepress.com The Burlington Free Press:
"Foregoing a strike is indeed the 'high road' that will help tone down the rhetoric and bring relations between the teachers union and school boards back to a more constructive level.
The unions bolster their credibility in saying they are putting the interest of students first and are willing to look forward, as union negotiator Jon Harris told the Free Press, to take the high road to avoid disrupting the start of the school year.
The decision to forego a strike opens the door for repairing relations between the union and the school boards in each community -- strained by past contract negotiations -- an opportunity school board members must embrace."
"Foregoing a strike is indeed the 'high road' that will help tone down the rhetoric and bring relations between the teachers union and school boards back to a more constructive level.
The unions bolster their credibility in saying they are putting the interest of students first and are willing to look forward, as union negotiator Jon Harris told the Free Press, to take the high road to avoid disrupting the start of the school year.
The decision to forego a strike opens the door for repairing relations between the union and the school boards in each community -- strained by past contract negotiations -- an opportunity school board members must embrace."
