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Vancouver school district conflict with union escalates | OregonLive.com

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Vancouver school district conflict with union escalates

Published: Friday, September 23, 2011, 12:00 PM Updated: Friday, September 23, 2011, 1:56 PM
Union_cr.jpgView full sizeMembers of the Vancouver Association of Educational Support Professionals, a nonteaching employees union, made a vote of no confidence in Vancouver Public Schools Superintendent Steve Webb.
The yearlong cold war between Vancouver Association of Educational Support Professionals and Vancouver Public Schools got hot this week.

Association members said the state Public Employees Relations Commission has notified them that they can move forward with the
unfair labor practices complaint they filed against the school district.

That development, along with the association's no-confidence vote in District Superintendent Steve Webb