Teachers in District 300 will head to the picket lines instead of their classrooms as LEAD 300 union officials hope it will be a short strike.
“I feel we are pretty close,” said Mike Williamson, LEAD spokesman. “I’m not sure they feel the same way. We’d like them to come and meet with us and quickly resolve this. Hopefully we won’t be out long.”
Picket lines will be set up at the district’s high schools, including Jacobs High School in Algonquin and the district’s administrative offices in Carpentersville, he said.
The outstanding issue is class size and compensation. There was some agreement on a size cap at the high school and middle school grades, but it was not close enough to get LEAD 300 members to ratify a contract, Williamson said.
No further bargaining sessions were scheduled as of late Monday.
Williamson worked on the last teachers contract and both sides were able to resolve the issues to avoid a strike.
“This one didn’t seem to have an immediacy on the board’s part to avoid this,” he said. “It’s disheartening.”
“We are all very surprised, this whole process has been about them not moving and grudgingly making movements,” Williamson said, adding the district agreed Monday to one term that had been discussed months ago and could’ve been resolved sooner.
Meanwhile, District 300 has instituted its Emergency Attendance Centers for students who registered in advance to participate. The centers will be set up at Carpentersville Middle School, Dundee Middle School and Hampshire Middle School. Daycare would be available from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The village of Lake in the Hills also is offering daycare. The daycare will be available from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at village hall, 600 Harvest Gate, and the cost is $25 per day for LITH residents and $30 per day for non-residents for your first child. The second child will be $22.50 a day for residents and $27 for non-residents.
Those interested in LITH daycare can call 847-960-7460 for more information or to register.
that's interesting, because i don't know anybody who likes the idea of our public employees belonging to unions... even FDR didn't like that idea. Union popularity suffered greatly last year when the unions made asses of themselves up in Madison, Wisconsin.. who likes teacher's unions anymore besides teachers? And even these D300 teachers weren't 100% behind the union going on strike, especially after the administration gave them what they needed in terms of smaller classroom sizes.
Just wanted to say thanks I just another food card, welfare check, and I am going for a sticker for handicap, you know you have to work the system. So I can park up real close in my expensive car. I get all of this from you wealthy people
some of us do leave the nest and some don't some of us have a good life thanks to all the wealthy people keep paying you taxes so the teachers and I can live better God Bless America
You do need some HELP !!! You can find it in the yellow pages under (L) for looser The teachers and I love all the free money we get for doing nothing !!! gatta love those teachers they work the system as well as I do America what a fine place to live it's all free
And for you PLEASE get some help !!!
Well you know a alcoholic doesn't have a problem and you a LOOSER don't have a problem Your not smart enough to see what a looser you really are, and the HELP you need
and you a BIG LOOSER you don't need any help either. One day you will say JB you were right I was a BIG LOOSER and now I am just a looser
I do enjoy reading the posts, do you and Nucky ever hit the stage together? Seems to me like Nucky is Abbott and you are Costello. Perhaps, if you associated with better people, you would learn to win your arguments instead of just sounding like a child. It doesn't help our side at all.