Emergency negotiation session scheduled to avoid Ringgold teacher strike

NEW EAGLE, Pa. — Channel 11 has learned an emergency negotiation session has been scheduled to avoid a teacher strike in the Ringgold School District.

The hope is to come to an agreement Tuesday, before the strike would begin Wednesday.

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The president of the school board said the strike would have a negative effect on students and further complicate negotiations.

The teachers say they are the lowest-paid in the area and think they deserve better.

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More than 200 teachers would be out of the classroom and on the picket line, but administrators hope a last-minute contract negotiation session could help avoid a strike.

The teachers have been without a contract since July and have been bargaining for a new one for more than a year.

They claim the salary at Ringgold is so low, teachers can't give their all because they often have to work a second job.

With just two days until the strike, the superintendent announced they're pushing up the negotiations and both sides will sit down with a mediator Tuesday.

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