Is DCPA union-busting?

By Elizabeth Scheinberg

The DCPA rumor mill grinding away...

The last collective bargaining session at DCPA was June 15. Upon failing to come to an agreement during the summer with PERB over grievance procedures, DCPA moved into self-imposed communication exile... mmmm... we've seen this behavior elsewhere...

With collective bargaining in shut-down mode and no response from the school leadership, DCPA's union filed for mediation, now scheduled for September 24th. The response from the school also re-opened issues that the teachers previously thought had reached mutual settlement during negotiations.

Word on the street is that at least two teachers (of four) on the negotiating team have been terminated in the last two weeks.