The teacher strike taking place in Woburn is the third since last fall in Massachusetts.
"There's a lot of struggles that came to light since the COVID pandemic," said Deb Gesualdo, president of the Malden Education Association."It's not all about wages. For us in Malden, it was about safety. It was about class sizes and caseloads, and we're seeing that here in Woburn, too."
Wages are at the center of the stalemate in Woburn, as well as the other contract disputes, driven in part by teacher shortages."We want to make sure that we have competitive wages for teachers. We want to retain the staff that we have here," said Christy Nickerson of the Woburn Teachers Association.
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