After the city and the union failed to reach a deal Monday, classes will be out for a second straight day.
, class was out on Monday. Mre than 500 teachers in the district were protesting outside all the schools in Woburn, but many of them had moved to Joyce Middle School, where negotiations had been slated to start around 9 a.m.
Woburn Teachers Association President Barbara Locke said Monday night that Galvin's side had refused to negotiate until about 2 p.m. According to court paperwork, the Commonwealth Employment Relations Board, a state agency that acts as an intermediary during labor disputes, filed an injunction Monday on behalf of the Woburn School Committee to try to force teachers off the picket line and back to class. A judge had not made a decision on that request as of Monday.Both sides said they didn’t want it to come to this, but after 25 negotiation sessions – Sunday's for eight hours – no deal meant no school on Monday.
Mayor Galvin said they offered 10% pay increases for teachers over three years, and the union countered with 14.75%. “The kids are going to be inconvenienced, the parents are going to be inconvenienced, and for the teachers to say they have no other options, it’s outrageous," Mayor Galvin said.
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