South Burlington board, teachers OK two-year contract

SOUTH BURLINGTON — The city’s school board approved a contract agreement with the teachers union Friday that ended months of negotiations and narrowly averted a strike planned for earlier in the week.
The deal was reached after hours of mediation Tuesday evening stretched into Wednesday morning, when the South Burlington Educators Association had voted to strike if a settlement wasn’t reached. The union ratified the preliminary agreement in a vote Wednesday.
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