Calls for head of Scranton teachers union to resign There are calls for Rosemary Boland, long-time head of a teachers' union in Scranton, to step down after comments she made during two school board meetings. Author: Elizabeth Worthington Updated: 6:48 PM EST February 18, 2021 SCRANTON, Pa. — These are the words of Scranton Federation of Teachers President Rosemary Boland that touched off a controversy: "We have children from families who are underserved by our medical community, nobody thinks about them, our black children, our brown children, our immigrant children, we don't know who in their family has had Covid, we don't know if they have been vaccinated because we don't know any of that because nobody has documentation for that part of our population right now."