Arlene Martinez of the Morning Call reports (read the article here) that the NASD has reviewed and approved the contract proposal presented by the fact finder.
According to the article the contract was delivered to the NASD and NAEA, the NASD reviewed it during executive session, took an additional 15 minute executive session during the regular meeting of the Board, and then voted 7-0 in favor of it.
Based on terms of the fact finder process the contract can not be released to the public until both sides act on it.
The NAEA now has 10 days from the date it was delivered (apparently yesterday) to make a decision to accept or reject it. If they reject it, negotiations would continue and they would have to provide notice to the NASD that they were going to strike.
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My guess is that with the speed that the board approved this, it is pretty close to what their original offer was, but I could be wrong.
What is really telling is the NAEA has still not responded, which sounds to me like they will most likely say no to it.
Usually, the quickest one to respond is the one that got what they want. Looks like we might have an extended Christmas vacation.
Yes, I must say so too. An article(Morning Call Wed) was in the newspaper today and I believe it read the teachers will vote on Dec 9 to accept or reject the fact finders contract. I too think it is a case for a strike, we shall see.
The other aspect to consider is that the Board is not meeting again until December 15 and their decision had to be made in ten days - Dec. 8, maybe they give them until the 11th (10 full school days), but either way it was vote then or have a special session.
I can't imagine at this point in time that either side couldn't look and find the points of difference and see what the finding was and then whether or not it is acceptable.
The optimist in me says the speed at which each is moving is a case of schedule and logistics.
The pessimist says that the teachers feel they won't do worse than what the fact finder presents if they strike so why not?
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