After dismissal, Newton parents file new lawsuit seeking damages for strike
Four Newton parents filed another class-action lawsuit seeking payments for harm caused by the 11-day strike.
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Four Newton parents filed another class-action lawsuit seeking payments for harm caused by the 11-day strike.
A judge has issued a final judgment on the case against the teachers' union in Newton, Massachusetts, following a strike over contract negotiations that shut...
The union will pay more than $600,000 in fines, split between Newton Public Schools and the Commonwealth Treasury.
This contract could have been — and should have been — settled without a strike. But it seemed more important to the mayor and the school committee to hold firm on budget parameters and punitive working conditions that would never be suitable to settle a fair contract.
The committee referred the legislation for further study, a move that typically derails a bill from moving forward in a legislative session and is sometimes used as a way for lawmakers to quietly kill legislation without taking a position on it.