History of Educator Strikes by MTA Locals
Brookline
November 3 - 4, 2020
Brookline educators protest unilateral changes in COVID-19 protections
What we don’t want is one guy thinking he knows how the science should be interpreted.
As the COVID-19 pandemic raged in the fall of 2020, the Brookline Educators Union disagreed with the School Committee’s assertion that the district could change the previously agreed-to social distancing requirements whenever it wanted. The union wanted the School Committee to bargain over any change at the request of either party. The School Committee refused.
On Nov. 3, 2020, a professional development day, 77 percent of teachers and 46 percent of paraprofessionals took a sick or personal day. The Commonwealth Employment Relations Board found that the abnormally high absentee rate that day constituted a strike.
Graciela Mohamedi, a Brookline High School physics teacher, defended social distancing during the pandemic in 2020. (Photo courtesy of the BEU)