Excerpt from June 13th article:
“The Boston Teachers Union rallied June 5 outside the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building as the union works through negotiations with the district around a new contract for its staff.
The union, which represents over 10,000 teachers and other professionals in the district, is seeking a number of updates to their contract, with a large focus on improving staff pay, improving facilities and student support and decreasing what they view as excessive workload for teachers.
“Being a teacher these days is an incredibly stressful role. When educators are not provided the same additional supports that teachers elsewhere are provided, it makes the job next to impossible and is one of the reasons it’s hard to retain people in our schools,” said Erik Berg, incoming president of the Boston Teachers Union.”