By Jim Muir
A tentative agreement has been reached between teachers and the administration at Ewing-Northern Grade School, averting a possible strike.
Both sides met Thursday night with a federal mediator and Collinsville attorney Barney Mundorf confirmed shortly after 10 p.m. that a tentative deal has been reached pending a vote of all teachers at 7:30 a.m. on Friday morning and the approval of the board at its next regularly scheduled meeting on Jan. 28.
Mundorf, who has acted as a spokesperson for the board, would not talk about any particular details in the tentative agreement but said he felt confident that both sides would ratify the contract. He said details of the deal would not be released until after board approval.
Teachers at Ewing-Northern have worked without a contact since August 30 and filed an intent to strike notice with the state in November. The 15 teachers at the school, located in northeast Franklin County, are represented by the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT). The threatened strike had threatened to stop classes for 227 students in grades K-8.
Franklincounty-news.com will have an update on this story after teachers vote Friday morning.
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