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SOUTH COVENTRY — The stalled contract negotiations between the Owen J. Roberts School District and its teachers union has gone public.
The teachers have been working without a contract since June 30 and the two sides have been negotiating, quietly for the most part, for 15 months.
However the failure to reach an agreement about wages has raised the stakes and the rhetoric in the matter and the teachers union have instructed their members to work only to the specific language of the expired contract and cease all extra and voluntary activities.
School Board President Douglas K. Hughes reacted by issuing a letter to the district Tuesday, which was also 
posted on the district web site, announcing that the teachers union had decided to “work to contract,” explaining they would “work only to the contractually obligated hours” and informing residents and taxpayers the union had asked their members “not to participate in any unpaid activities.”
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