After union bid, fired charter school teachers allege retaliation
Earlier this year, a small group of determined teachers at Opportunity Charter School marched into Leonard Goldberg’s office and confronted their boss.
They carried a letter that detailed their complaints with Goldberg’s response to their recent bid to unionize. Not only had Goldberg refused to recognize the staff’s vote to join the United Federation of Teachers, they said, he had begun waging an anti-union email campaign.
Goldberg, the school’s CEO, declined the letter and ordered them to leave, according to a teacher present at the meeting.
“He was screaming and yelling,” said the teacher. “He said ‘You’re not welcome in here,’ and threw us out of the office.”
By the end of the school year, that teacher and 13 of her pro-union colleagues – as well as one who opposed
