[Boston-editorial] new feature: Springfield teachers fight back against control board

[Matthew Williams]

  Springfield teachers fight back against control board
by Bryan G. Pfeifer, bgp (nospam) iacboston.org

In the midst of a Northeastern snow storm which eventually dumped over 
seven inches of snow on the area that day, over 800 teachers and their 
allies packed the Central High School auditorium March 1 for a public 
speak-out to tell the city's Finance Control Board: Hands off teachers 
and all city workers! The public forum, part of an ongoing campaign by 
the Springfield Teachers Association, exposed the control board's 
attempts to move money out of the already-strapped school budget to pay 
for other city expenses; its unilateral cuts in benefits that will cost 
city employees, including educators, thousands of dollars; and 
threatening even further cuts to the wages and benefits of teachers and 
other city employees.

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08 Mar 2005 | Filed under: News / Education : Labor : Race