Listen: Nearby School Board Member Assails Teacher's Union Representative

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The has enjoyed relative labor peace with its teachers union for several years now.

, reached in Aug. of 2011, was negotiated in 20 bargaining sessions without the assistance of an outside negotiator or Pennsylvania State Education Association representation, as is common in some Allegheny County school contract talks. 

Not all districts enjoy that kind of stability. 

Consider what happened Wednesday evening at the Baldwin-Whitehall school district.

Baldwin-Whitehall School Board member Kevin J. Fischer reacted harshly to a news release issued recently by The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA).

In that release—most of which is —PSEA spokesman Butch Santicola said, "The Baldwin-Whitehall School Board just thumbed their noses not only at their teachers ... they also thumbed their noses at the taxpaying residents of  and the students of the district."

Santicola was referring to the school board's decision not to address a labor proposal from the teachers union that it claims would have saved the district $1.5 million over the next five years.

With his fist sometimes pounding on his desk, Fischer angrily denied that the board "thumbed their noses" at anyone and accused the union of being greedy.

Click on the audio recording above to hear Fischer's speech.

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