Mixed feelings on impact of open teacher negotiations

From The Greeley Tribune:  A union boss, likely wearing suspenders with a suit, spits profanity across a smoke-filled room.

Across the table sits a corporate attorney, fully capable of lobbing his own insults while his spit-shined shoes grace the table-top.

Perhaps the vision isn’t as fetching as the reality. Or perhaps it is. We’ll soon see.

Proposition 104, which will soon become law, will subject teacher unions and school district’s collective bargaining negotiations to the Colorado Open Meetings Act.

For Greeley-Evans School District 6 and the Greeley Education Association, who have disagreed more often than they’ve agreed in the past decade, this is a let-the-fireworks-begin moment, right?

“Sometimes people have this picture in their mind of this shouting match, but that’s not how it works,” D6 spokeswoman Theresa Myers said of the actual negotiations.

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