Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester vote to go on strike [Video]

Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester have voted to go on strike Thursday, with the strike going into effect immediately.”We are willing to do whatever it takes to fix the crisis in our schools,” organizers said. “We went into our jobs because we wanted to make a difference in the lives of our children.”Both the Beverly Teachers Association and Gloucester Teachers Association held press conferences Thursday evening, where they announced their intentions to begin the strike.”Without fundamental changes in our districts, we will continue to be tasked with understaffing, underfunding and overflowing classrooms,” organizers said. “The district and the city has left us in a deep hole for years.”The vote comes after school committees in both cities asked the Department of Labor Relations to step in and stop any potential strikes.”It is unfortunate that the Beverly Teachers Association intends to take this step particularly given that the state has just recently …