President’s Day is taking a different look at Newton, Massachusetts this year.
Students have left for the holiday, but unlike other communities on a February break, they will return to class on Tuesday.
School officials canceled the holiday to make time from last month’s teacher strike.
Those demonstrations ruled the debate on Massachusetts and Beacon Hill, where some legalists are calling for change in state law.
“A strike is a very important right that we need to save,” said the rape.
The right to strike is an effort from the three state MPs who have strikes the strike, including Uytrahoaven to stop public employees from participating in organized walkouts.
“This bill, while it is to restore the right to strike, is about the fair bargaining practices, which have not played out,” he said.
The law has the support of some teacher advocates groups.
Max Page of Massachusetts Teachers Association said, “We think the growing number of MLAs realize that something needs to be done and an uneven playground.”
Other groups such as the Massachusetts Association of School Committees have a different view.
Kajal’s Executive Director Glenn Kucher said, “This area is very high, and argues that the right to strike is required to level the playground, but in fact, there is a lot in their arsenal to go with them, and they use it.”
While this debate plays, both sides are working for more labor disputes in the years ahead.
Kucher said, “The districts who are probably thinking about the striking will bargain with school committees, which they did not have the money that they had a year ago.”
“We would expect the school committees around the state come to the table, ready for the conversation,” Page said.
As the right to strike a bill, it was recently sent to study the possibility of keeping this session by vote.