GLOUCESTER – Teachers are fighting for new contracts in Gloucester, Beverly And Marble headMassachusetts will hold a meeting together on the North Shore on Monday afternoon.
Gloucester, Beverly, Marblehead teachers strike
They plan to meet at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester at 2pm in their push for better wages and working conditions.
Teachers in Gloucester and Beverly went on strike on Friday. Negotiations in both cities resumed Monday morning during Veterans Day.
“Our focus as we enter a new week is to get our children back to school as quickly as possible and limit the impact on their learning that this illegal strike has already had,” said Kathy Clancy, president of the Gloucester School Committee. in a statement Monday.
Marblehead teachers will go on strike Tuesday if they don’t have a deal on a new contract. The school committee there will also resume negotiations with the teachers union on Monday morning.
Teacher strikes are illegal
Teacher strikes are illegal in Massachusetts and teachers unions usually have to pay thousands of dollars in fines.
In February, teachers in Newton held a 15-day strikeone of the longest teacher strikes in Massachusetts history.
It cost their teachers union $625,000 of fines. The union was ordered to pay the school district $275,000 and the state $350,000.
