SCHOOL COMMITTEE v. WESTERLY TEACHERS ASS'N

No. 1874-M. P.

299 A.2d 441 (1973)

SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF the TOWN OF WESTERLY v. WESTERLY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

January 31, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent J. Piccirilli, Providence, Robert A. Liguori, Town Sol., Westerly, for plaintiff-respondent.

Natale L. Urso, WEsterly, Robert H. Chanin, National Education Assn., Washington, D. C., for defendant-petitioner.

Julius C. Michaelson, Richard A. Skolnik, Providence, for amicus curiae-American Federation of Teachers. AFL-CIO and Rhode Island Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.


OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

Last September when the public school bells rang to announce the beginning of a new school year, there was one group whose response was something less than unanimous. It was the schoolteachers. In several communities they appeared at the schoolhouse doors not to teach but to picket. A phrase was heard which until recently was usually uttered by those engaged in the private sector of employment. It was "no contract, no work."

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