Union-Ratified Teachers' Contract Going Back to E.P. Budget Board
The teachers' union voted by a wide margin to accept a new 5-year contract that new needs final approval from the East Providence Budget Commission.
The East Providence teachers’ union has ratified a new 5-year contract by a wide margin. The pact now goes before the Budget Commission for final approval tomorrow. The vote last Friday by the East Providence Education Association was 224-42, said Valerie Lawson, president of the union, according to a story in the East Providence Post. "It moves us in the right direction," said Lawson on Wednesday. "It will be nice to have some financial stability for a change." Lawson said the union leadership recommended ratification of the agreement. The fact that 84 percent of the membership approved the agreement demonstrates the support for it, she said, even though the pact does nothing immediately to elevate the East Providence teachers as the …
