The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) is advocating to legalize teacher strikes and establish minimum salaries for educators in its recent legislative agenda. With about 117,000 members, the union seeks to build on successes like eliminating MCAS test scores as a graduation requirement. Despite state law banning public employees from striking, many local unions have engaged in effective work stoppages. MTA President Max Page emphasizes that legalizing strikes would force negotiations to proceed, ensuring better outcomes for teachers amid delays by school district lawyers during bargaining.
Having the legal right to strike will get everyone to the table, especially those few districts that have refused to negotiate in good faith.
The MTA is riding momentum from last year's successful push to eliminate MCAS test scores as graduation requirements.
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