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Hello, Bob_Cushman:

Thanks for the information. I agree that the WTU bears responsibility for its actions that have led to nearly three decades of this kind of easily-preventable drama. I also think that the membership should consider just how much damage they have done to themselves, professionally and personally, by agreeing to keep the same leadership in place for so long.

For example, they may get raises and some type of retroactive pay from the next contract; they should ask their leadership how much better of a deal they could have gotten by actually signing a new contract in 2015. They should also ask how much better their public image is after two years of "work to rule," issuing schoolyard taunts at the superintendent, and digging in their heels in the face of actual effort being made by the school committee to have a contract.

Unfortunately, as you point out, there is little reason to get one's hopes up, given the WTU's past behavior.