Should Public School Teachers Have the Right to Strike in Massachusetts?
June 14, 2023, 4:00-5:00 p.m. ET, Zoom
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Join us on June 14, 2023, for a debate between Paul Levy, Newton School Committee Member, and Max Page, President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, moderated by Carrie Jung, Senior Education Reporter at WBUR, on whether teachers should have the right to strike in Massachusetts. Register.
Speaker Bios:
Paul Levy was elected to the Newton School Committee in November 2021 and is serving a two-year term. His career includes CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2002-2011); Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Medical School (1998-2002); Executive Director of the Mass Water Resources Authority (1987-1992); and Chairman of the MA Department of Public Utilities (1987-1992). At the MWRA, he was responsible for initiating and signing the project labor agreement governing labor relations for the decade-long $4-billion Boston Harbor Cleanup. At HMS, Levy was part of the collective bargaining team for negotiations with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers. He has written extensively on matters related to public policy, leadership, and negotiation.
Carrie Jung is WBUR's senior education reporter. She joined the team in 2018 and has covered a variety of topics in that time including the Harvard affirmative action trial and Massachusetts renewed efforts to support early education and care services. While at WBUR, Jung has won two Edward R. Murrow awards. Before moving to Boston, Jung lived and worked in the southwest reporting on education and Native American issues for outlets like KJZZ, NPR, National Native News, and Al Jazeera America.
Max Page is president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the largest union in New England, representing 115,000 public school and college educators in Massachusetts. As an MTA leader, Page helped organize members to ensure passage of the Student Opportunity Act. As president, he is continuing to fight for similar legislation to increase funding for public higher education, with the goal of making it debt-free for students. Page is also professor of architecture at UMass Amherst.