Tigard-Tualatin Education Association files state complaint against school district
Published: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 6:06 PM Updated: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 6:15 PM
The Tigard-Tualatin Education Association has filed a state unfair labor practice complaint against the Tigard-Tualatin School District, claiming the district violated state laws in its treatment of school nurses.
The complaint, filed Wednesday with the state Employment Relations Board, alleges the district is asking nurses to perform duties beyond their scope of abilities and that it has failed to bargain in good faith with the union representing the nurses.
The controversy stems from nurses complaints last spring about being called upon to suction the tracheostomy tube of a medically