Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 5, 2020 / 15:12 pm
Teachers from schools in the Archdiocese of New York have filed a labor complaint, saying they were not properly involved in negotiations regarding reopening, and were not kept informed about procedures.
The complaints were filed with the New York Public Employment Relations Board.
"These teachers need to feel safe," said Joanne Parotta, the head of the Federation of Catholic Teachers Local 153, the union for the archdiocese's teachers. "And right now, they really don't. We don't feel safe. It's too quick."
Parotta was quoted in the New York Daily News on September 3 saying that 23 of 109 schools in the archdiocese have not been given reopening information, despite the fact that they are set to open within the next week. Teachers, she said, were only told about the plans on Wednesday.