Current mood: annoyed
*ok i live in a lil shit town called Rochester in pa , north west of pittsburgh , for the last 2 weeks .. my kids have been out of school due to a work stoppage *strike* now these teachers and staff are striking mainly because they don't want to pay into their healthcare benefits , But yet they're standing outside in 8 degree weather with signs saying how they miss the kids blah blah ... well GET YOUR LAZY WHINING ASSES BACK IN THE SCHOOL WHERE YOU BELONG AND STRIKE IN THE SUMMER when noones going to care and parents aren't going to lose jobs because of lack of childcare or the inability to afford childcare because they're making less than 8.00 an hr !!!
No pact reached in Rochester
By: Larissa Theodore, Times Staff
02/16/2007
Rochester area school officials bargained for 10 hours Friday, but ended without a formal resolution.
Butch Santicola, spokesman for the Pennsylvania State Education Association, said none of the nine school board members attended the bargaining session.
He said the chief negotiator for the board, Al Vennare, ended the talks shortly after 8 p.m., unable to go further without speaking to the board of directors first.
Vennare said progress has been made and that all parties would be in communications over the weekend to try and move forward.
Teachers, secretaries and aides, and cafeteria and maintenance employees, have worked since summer without contracts. The strike will enter its third week on Monday.
