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Members of the Dorchester-based Boston Teachers Union this week voted in support of breaking away from the Greater Boston Labor Council, a union umbrella group with 100,000 members. The teachers union has more than 8,000 members, making it the largest city of Boston union. The split, if finalized, would mean the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC) would no longer receive BTU
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Despite high ongoing COVID-19 infection rates across the city, Boston Public Schools and other districts across Massachusetts have been forcing teachers and students back to school.
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley originally mandated all elementary students and teachers return to school starting April 5, with support from Governor Charlie Baker. After pushback from educators, BPS was granted a waiver to start in-person learning on April 26.
Boston teachers and staff have been faced with the constant threat of schools reopening under dangerous conditions throughout the past year. Liberation News spoke to members of the Boston Teachers Union about their struggle through the pandemic to this point, and their ongoing concerns as Massachusetts approaches reopening.
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April 23 | Protesters screamed out of their windows, part of a mobile caravan driving past Baker’s home in Swampscott to protest the closures in the state due to the pandemic.
Members of the Boston Teachers Union have overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in Boston Public Schools superintendent Brenda Cassellius through a motion brought from the floor of a membership meeting.
The floor vote was affirmed by a 97.5% margin during an emergency membership meeting this evening. It comes on the heels of the superintendent’s refusal to formally extend equal and uniform safety provisions as those which have been in place at four BPS schools that are currently open, to the 28 additional schools slated to open on Monday morning.
Despite the lack of formalized and equal protections across schools, BTU educators also affirmed that those educators assigned to in-person teaching responsibilities would be reporting to buildings Monday morning.