BARGAINING PACE ASSAILED BY TEACHERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100040009-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 10, 1986
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Bargaining
Face Assailed
By Teachers
Montgomery Protest
7krgets School Board
The association, which repre-
sents about 6,500 teachers, has
been meeting with school board
representatives for about 10 weeks.
If an 'agreement has not been
reached, an impasse will be de-
clared on Dec. 20 and both sides
will submit to binding arbitration.
The current contract expires July 1.
Teachers received an across-the-
board pay raise of 6 percent this
year.
Bruce Goldensohn, who was re-
cently elected to the school board,
By Zita Arocha
Washington Post Staff WNW
About 100 Montgomery County
teachers gathered yesterday in
front of the county school board
headquarters to protest what they
said was board members' inactivity
in salary negotiations.
Mark Simon, president of the
Montgomery County Educators'
Association, said that the current
negotiations with the school board
are "a cynical process" that will in-
evitably lead to an impasse.
"The process outlined by [the
school board's] negotiators isn't
bargaining," Simon told cheering
teachers. "It's an empty ritual car-
ried out by bureaucrats and tech-
nicians in which the board abdicates
its responsibilities."
He said that because the board's
negotiator, and not the board itself,
develops counterproposals, "teach-
ers are understandably bitter."
At a meeting earlier in the day,
school board members declined to
give Simon a chance to speak as
part of their regular agenda.
Board President Marilyn Prais-
ner read a statement at the meeting
that said, "Public statements by the
parties on the positions of the par-
ties are contrary to the spirit of col-
lective bargaining .... "
attended the teachers' meeting and
later said: "I think [the association]
is sincere in what it wants, but
there's no way they could get ev-
erything they asked for."
Also, at the school board meet-
ing, Praisner, an analyst with the
CIA, was unanimously elected pres-
ident o e r an aron i-
onzo, a community activist, was
elected vice president.
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