History of Educator Strikes by MTA Locals
Plymouth-Carver
October 25 - 26, 1983
Only 10 of 456 cross picket line in EAPC strike
Plymouth-Carver teachers picketed downtown during one-day strike on Oct. 25, 1983
It [the strike] has brought the membership much closer together and has aroused a number of citizens to rally around our cause.
A one-day strike by the Educational Association of Plymouth & Carver on Oct. 25, 1983, was deemed a “great success” by EAPC President Joan Barry, as quoted in MTA Today.
She listed the main issues as salaries, class sizes and protracted contract talks. It was the third year in a row that EAPC members had returned to school without a contract.
Only 10 of the EAPC’s 456 members crossed the picket line, a show of solidarity that Barry credited with leading to a speedier negotiation schedule.