Neshaminy teachers offer to end strike
Union seeks around-the-clock talks for seven days, followed by binding arbitration.
Neshaminy teachers offer to end strike
The 654-member Neshaminy Federation of Teachers offered Friday to end their five-day strike to enter around-the clock negotiations with the school board for one week, followed by "final and binding arbitration.
"We have been advised that the School Board is willing to engage in around the clock negotiations if the Federation is willing to immediately end its strike," the union said in a letter to school board President Ritchie Webb. "The Federation welcomes this Board offer to bargain twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week until agreement is reached, if the strike is suspended.
"We would readily agree to do so if the Board also agrees that if no agreement is reached within seven days of around the clock bargaining, all remaining disputes would be submitted to final and binding arbitration before an arbitrator selected from a list of seven names provided by the American Arbitration Association," the union said.
"The offer to enter into binding arbitration is huge," union spokesman Bob Schiers said. "It's the first time in the history of the NFT" that it has been offered.
Webb said he had not made an offer to the union, other than that negotiations would resume once the teachers go back to work.
"The rest of it is spin," he said. "I am considering it."
Webb said he would respond to the union Friday afternoon, after discussing the offer with board members.
Schiers said that Webb and board Vice President Kim Koutsouradis have said in interviews and at Tuesday's school board meeting that they would return to the table and negotiate around-the-clock, seven days a week, as soon as the teachers end their strike.
- Who created these "current economic conditions"? When are the taxpayers going to set the salaries of Wall Street and the banks and hold them accountable for the trillions they have taken from the taxpayer. Not only are they not arrested, not only do they not lose their jobs; they are given million dollar bonuses for scamming the taxpayer.
— tom-104 - 2 out of the 9 board members have college degrees on the Neshaminy School Board? Who elected these officials?? How can these uneducated fools be making these decisions?— Injure The Machine
