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After more than a year of negotiating, the teachers’ union and the support staff union in Fairbanks have not worked out a contract with the local school district. They plan to picket near the intersection of University Avenue and the Johansen Expressway tomorrow afternoon. Both unions will enter Arbitration with the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in August.

Teachers and school support staff in Fairbanks are still working without union contracts. Negotiations between the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District with both the Fairbanks Education Association, FEA, and the Education Support Staff Association, ESSA have stalled and neutral, third-party negotiator will try to move talks forward.

Today is the first day many Fairbanks-area elementary students will be returning to in-person learning in their home classrooms. Teachers and Support…

The associations that represent Fairbanks-area teachers, principals and support staff released a statement Friday opposing the opening of schools in…

Teachers in Fairbanks are voting tomorrow night on a new three-year contract with the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. And Saturday morning,…