The Columbia School Board did not meet the demands of the Columbia Missouri National Education Association during recent negotiations over salary, benefits and other issues, a lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges.
Association President Kathy Steinhoff took the floor at last week’s School Board meeting in an attempt to persuade the board to continue to exclusively bargain with the association as the recognized representative of Columbia Public Schools’ teachers.
The lawsuit asks the court to protect individual teachers’ and the association’s collective bargaining rights under Article I, Section 29 of the Missouri Constitution and bar the district from acting in bad faith by demanding that the association agree to take action prohibited by court order, according to a news release from the Missouri National Education Association.
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