“What we heard was not, 'Oh, we want to go on strike,' not at all,'” he said. Members did not want to leave their classrooms but “felt so disrespected, so abandoned, so left alone by the political leaders in this city that they knew they had no choice but to go out on strike and say 'Mayor Fuller, enough is enough.'”
"The Newton School Committee filed a petition for a strike investigation with the Commonwealth Employment Relations Board, as state law bans public employees like teachers from striking."
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