A teachers strike
enters its third day this morning in a school district covering several Bennington County towns. That means no school again for about 3,000 students.
Teachers in the Bennington area are on strike for a second day and schools remain closed after talks with board negotiators didn’t produce a settlement.
More than 200 teachers in the Southwestern Vermont Supervisory Union are
on strike for the first time in nearly two decades after
unsuccessful negotiations with school administrators.
Negotiators for 270 unionized Bennington
area teachers and the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union have been meeting late into the evening in a last-ditch effort to avert a teachers strike.
Teachers have been picketing with signs and pleading their case to the public, as their local union clashes with the
school board over stalemated contract negotiations.
Bennington area teachers are back at the bargaining table with
school boards from the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union. The
teachers say they’ve been working under conditions imposed by the district last
spring.