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September 5, 2007

Still no school in East Greenwich

There is still no school for students in East Greenwich, the only district in the state where teachers have not returned to the classroom.

Teachers are scheduled to meet with the school department at 5 this evening to continue mediated negotiations.

The first scheduled day of school was yesterday, but it was canceled after the union voted to strike following 30 hours of negotiations over the Labor Day weekend failed to produce new contract terms.

Although class was canceled, more than 150 of the union’s members showed up for the School Committee’s regular monthly meeting last night at the East Greenwich High School auditorium.

The labor dispute was not on the meeting agenda.

The teachers’ strike in Tiverton was called off yesterday afternoon after lawyers for both sides reached a consent agreement which calls for school committee members and union representatives to return to mediation. Those talks are scheduled to being this evening at 6.

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 8:27 AM | Permalink

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