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Mr Corrente,

Just my opinion based upon the article. They walked over money, not contract language.

And if we remember around 2012 all the other unions provided givebacks to the city and took Zeros for raises. The teachers took 3% raises if I recall correctly. Now they want 3% retros also? They are greedy.

"Ragosta, who has been acting as mediator for the past two years, said, “It has been a long process.” He felt with the union’s rejection of the last best mediated offer, which would have given teachers a 2.5 percent retroactive raise for last year and 3 percent raises this year and for 2018 and 2019, the committee is content to wait for the results of interest arbitration. Interest arbitration that paralleled mediation was finalized earlier this summer.

Arbitrator Michael Ryan shared his “leanings” with the union and School Committee and they were taken into consideration in the offer extended by the committee. The committee rejected the union’s counter offer of 3 percent raises retroactively for two years as well as the three years going forward."