State authorities revoke labor contract for 15,000 Philadelphia teachers - World Socialist Web Site
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State authorities revoke labor contract for 15,000 Philadelphia teachers
By Jerry White and Samuel Davidson
7 October 2014
In a meeting held virtually without any public notice and no public testimony, the five-member School Reform Commission overseeing the Philadelphia public school system in the US state of Pennsylvania voted unanimously Monday morning to revoke a labor agreement covering 15,000 teachers.
The move, which has the backing of the Republican-controlled state government in Harrisburg and the local Democratic Party establishment in Philadelphia, clears the way for authorities to unilaterally impose deep health care cuts for current and retired instructors and accelerate the dismantling of public education in the nation’s 14th largest school district.