Wash. State Orders Teachers Back to Work

[DUreader]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3290364,00.html

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - Striking teachers in
Marysville voted to obey a judge's order and go
back to work, ending the longest teachers' strike
in state history.

The vote Monday night was 420-181 to begin
teaching classes Wednesday, the first of this
school year for the district's 11,000 students,
said Rich Wood, a Washington Education
Association spokesman.

``It is time for all the adults to grow up and start
looking at their obligations to these children,''
Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Linda C.
Krese said earlier Monday, upset that four days of
court-ordered negotiations failed to yield a
contract.

Had teachers decided to violate the order, they
could have faced fines of $250 a day.

[Brucey]

1. Sad.

It's always "think about the children." When will the US citizens start thinking about the children and give teachers some decent pay raises and benefits (including respect)? The right to strike (hell, even the right to complain) is being seriously eroded with pressure from neocons.