By
an overwhelming margin, the Providence Teachers Union rejected a contract that would have eliminated all job security.
The Providence Teachers Union on Monday rejected a three-year contract proposal
that would have eliminated the job-security clause and allowed management to
create a new compensation system that would have awarded extra pay for
additional responsibilities.
The membership struck down the proposal due to
“misrepresentations” by Mayor Angel Taveras’ administration when the tentative
agreement was unveiled that “poisoned the well,” Calabro said.
Also, language
in the new compensation plan, for example, was unduly vague, in the
membership’s view, and “a lack of trust” had developed between the union and
the school administration and the city.”
Mayor Angel Taveras, an advocate of non-union
charter schools, said there was nothing left to negotiate.