NFT Offers To Conditionally End Teachers' Strike

The Neshaminy Federation of Teachers has offered to end its strike if the Neshaminy School Board agrees to negotiate around the clock.

In a letter to school board President Ritchie Webb, NFT President Louise Boyd said that the union was advised that the board is willing to "engage in around the clock negotiations if the NFT is willing to immediately end its strike."

"The Federation welcomes this Board offer to bargain twenty-fours hours a day, seven days a week until agreement is reached, if the strike is suspended," Boyd wrote to Webb.

Boyd wrote to Webb that the union would "readily" agree to do this if the school board "board also agrees that if no agreement is reached within seven days of around the clock bargaining, all remaining disputes would be submitted to final and binding arbitration before an arbitrator selected from a list of seven names provided by the American Arbitration Association."

The teachers announced they were going on strike Friday, January 6 and Webb .

Prior to suspending negotiation sessions, negotiating teams were slated to meet Thursday, January 12. The and teachers .

On Tuesday, Webb said that if the union wanted him at the negotiation session, teachers need to go back to work.

"If you don’t go back to work, I wont be there," Webb said.

The board's negotiation team did not show up Thursday while teachers protested in front of Maple Point Middle School where the meeting was to be held.