I also belong to a union who represents us and negotiates our contract every three years. In other schools where I have worked, there was a sense of mutual respect and camaraderie between the teachers and the school committee. Not so in this school system! We have not had a contract for the past two years - but the negotiations always seem toxic. There has been much blahblahblah and mind-numbing animosity about all this...Happily however, an agreement was reached last week; we all got to vote on it today. Shockingly, not everyone voted...you can't complain if you don't vote! I am very grateful to my negotiation team members for all their work.
It seems that most everyone is unhappy with the terms - to my way of thinking, that means it is fair.
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