BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 In a special meeting, the Bethlehem Area School District Board of School Directors on Tuesday approved a fact-finder\u2019s recommendations regarding the district\u2019s contract dispute with Teamsters Local 773.<\/p>\n
The recommendations were issued by fact-finder Barbara Lichtman in her final report on Aug. 31 and concern the bargaining dispute between the district and the union, which represents the district\u2019s clerical and secretarial employees.<\/p>\n
The collective bargaining agreement between BASD and Teamsters Local 773 expired June 30. According to board documents, the parties had been engaged in formal negotiations since Oct. 1 and had exchanged numerous proposals without reaching an agreement.<\/p>\n
Teamsters Local 773 is a union representing workers across various industries in Eastern Pennsylvania and is part of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, according to the organization\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board appointed Lichtman as fact-finder on July 21. Lichtman issued her final report Aug. 31, following a fact-finding hearing held Aug. 13, according to board documents.<\/p>\n
Under the Pennsylvania Public Employee Relations Act, the district had 10 days to notify the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board whether it would accept or reject the fact-finder\u2019s recommendations, according to board documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 In a special meeting, the Bethlehem Area School District Board of School Directors on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1967,153,117847,155,154,117846,117848],"class_list":["post-281994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-basd","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-area-school-district-board","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-international-brotherhood-of-teamsters","tag-pennsylvania-labor-relations-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}