GETAWAY – Teachers at the Collins Career Center-Lawrence County Joint Vocational School spent Friday and Saturday gearing up for the pending strike.

Sunday, February 24, 2002

GETAWAY – Teachers at the Collins Career Center-Lawrence County Joint Vocational School spent Friday and Saturday gearing up for the pending strike.

Teachers cleared personal items from the school Friday after students had left for the weekend. Yesterday evening, the teachers met in the fellowship hall of Getaway United Methodist Church, which the union rented and has designated as the strike headquarters.

On Monday, teachers will return to school and it will be business as usual for the educators until Thursday evening, local union president Harold Henderson said.

Teachers will even be on hand Tuesday night for Sophomore Parent night where the teachers will talk to the parents of sophomores who are interested in attending the school next year.

Sophomore night, Henderson explained, provides teachers, parents and students another opportunity to meet and discuss the programs offered. This meeting comes after Sophomores from across the county visited the school last week to see what the facility had to offer.

On Thursday, however, things will become much different for the school.

Instead of taking their place at the head of the class, teachers will hit the picket line at both the Getaway campus and the branch in Coal Grove.

The strike could be averted, Henderson said, if the union saw "a little movement on the boards part."

So far, Henderson said, there are no plans in place for the board and the teachers union to meet.