Merrick Academy workers get boot via FedEx amid contract dispute between school, union
Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 4:00 AM
A scandal-plagued Queens charter school fired at least nine teachers Tuesday - via FedEx, union officials said.
Some of the Merrick Academy staffers who got the boot are chalking it up to a bitter contract dispute between the school and unionized teachers.
"If the board of the Merrick charter school is firing teachers because of union activity, then we're going to take all legal action against them," said United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.
Teachers at the Queens Village school voted to unionize in 2008 but they haven't reached
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High School teacher, who led kids on field trip to Cuba, wanted to see Fidel Castro one more time
The Upper West Side high school teacher who took students on an unauthorized trip to Cuba three years ago wanted to "see Castro one more time before he died," according to a new report.
The office of the commissioner of investigation for city schools concluded that Beacon School history teacher Nathan Turner should remain ineligible to work i
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