HSTA contract protest draws hundreds in Ewa Beach

The Campbell High rally highlights ongoing frustration over negotiations

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 16, 2012

~~<p>Roughly 600 teachers, students, parents and community members flanked Fort Weaver Road near Campbell High School on Thursday to send Gov. Neil Abercrombie a message: "Negotiate, not mandate."</p>
<p>Protesters waved signs bearing those words and other phrases such as "Fair Deal for Students and Teachers" and "Governor Where's Our Contract?" outside the state's largest public school for more than an hour to inform the community that Hawaii State Teachers Association members and supporters still strongly oppose the "last, best and final" contract imposed on them in July 2011.</p>
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Roughly 600 teachers, students, parents and community members flanked Fort Weaver Road near Campbell High School on Thursday to send Gov. Neil Abercrombie a message: "Negotiate, not mandate."

Protesters waved signs bearing those words and other phrases such as "Fair Deal for Students and Teachers" and "Governor Where's Our Contract?" outside the state's largest public school for more than an hour to inform the community that Hawaii State Teachers Association members and supporters still strongly oppose the "last, best and final" contract imposed on them in July 2011. Login for more...