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How nice of their mayor to want to demand they pay $250k for police details……..you’d think fellow union workers would gladly support at no cost

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/woburn-weeklong-teachers-strike-ends/

Yea I thought that was bull shit too. As a tax payer I’m happy to pay for police detail so teachers can strike as long as they need to until they’re getting properly treated. Also I don’t get how the strike can be illegal.

Given that Healey refuses to legalize public strikes, we need a ballot initiative

Word is that Haverhill made a similar payment, so Mayor Galvin demanded it from the woburn teachers union since there was precedent. Not sure how common it is.

The PTOs from the schools made fun of it by having a bake sale today with a $250,000 goal.

They can make as much fun as they want. They just have to pay it.

No they don't. The parent teacher organizations are not on the hook. Lol

Healey refuses to? The state legislature refuses to.

Just so you know, this isn't the first teacher strike in the state. Might want to brush up on your history there a touch.

Public strikes are banned in Massachusetts. Since 1919. The first red scare was used as an excuse to ban strikes.

Yet they still happen. Funny that.

And unions are still subject to massive fines, and police action, if they choose to strike. Funny that.

And every so often a bill gets introduced to overturn it, yet it gets killed, but I'm sure you totally knew that already.

That sadly isn't funny, just uniformed like usual.

Right, and that's why having the ability to strike is so important. It forces the municipalities to negotiate in good faith. Because, as recent evidence suggests, municipalities don't need to argue in good faith.

>Right, and that's why having the ability to strike is so important.

Which they do regardless of fines or threats from police. The laws are wag your finger bullshit in the face of striking.

Here, go do some reading: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H1946/BillHistory

Freedom of assembly and speech sure is expensive if you're an essential worker... :/

Galvin, along with the rest of the school committee, set the conditions for a strike by refusing to negotiate in good faith. Galvin, along with the rest of the school committee, set the conditions for the strike to last by lowballing and offering little in the way of compromise. Galvin personally set the conditions for the strike to go longer than it did by walking out of a meeting to go on TV while the union was at the table ready to keep talking.

The idea that the union's actions are responsible for $250,000 for the taxpayer is, on its face, ridiculous.

Galvin could have walked out two more times, hardballed them for four more days, and said a cool half-million ought to cover it.

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