Westlake Teachers Union and Board of Education Agree to 3-Year Deal, Avoid Strike

An agreement which will avoid a strike was reached between Westlake Schools and the Westlake Teachers Union around 4 p.m. on Thursday according to Cleveland.com.

Union leaders will inform the teachers of the agreement and two days after that, teachers will vote on ratification. If approved, the school board would then take a vote.

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Terms of the agreement have not been revealed yet, spokespersons for the teachers union and the school board told Cleveland.com that they wanted to inform the teachers first.

Assuming the teachers ratify the new agreement and the board votes to approve it, the teachers will go back to work at the end of the summer on Aug. 18 with classes beginning on Aug. 22.

"All the issues with Aug. 18 are over," teachers union spokeswoman Loretta Tindall told cleveland.com. "We'll go to work."

Board President Carol Winter said that both sides knew that they needed to continue negotiating.

"We started talking. And as we talked we started checking off some of the easier items that we weren't that far apart on and we just kept on talking," Winter said.

For more, see cleveland.com.

See also:

• Westlake Teachers Urge School Board to Listen, Board Won't Negotiate in Public
• Westlake Teachers Threaten Strike
• Teacher Strike in Westlake Still a Possibility
• Westlake Teachers to Vote on Board's Final Offer, Strike Possible
• Westlake Teacher's Union Rejects Board's Offer, Strike Looms