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18 FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1990

fter working without
a contract since
September and say-
ing they see no progress on
contract negotiations, the
secular teachers at Yeshiva
Beth Yehudah went on
strike Monday.
Fred Goldenberg, attorney
for the teachers, said the
afternoon teachers at both
the Joseph Tanenbaum
School for Boys in Southfield
and the Sally Allan Alex-
ander Beth Jacob School for
Girls in Beverly Hills have
"decided to withhold their
services until they get a con-
tract."
Rabbi E.B. Freedman,
school administrator, said
the strike was called
"without proper warning or
provocation." He would not
give details.
Although afternoon
classes at the boys' school
were canceled Monday and
Tuesday, the yeshiva ad-
ministration found
substitutes for classes at the
girls' school. Classes at both
schools resumed Wednesday
after administrators,
parents and volunteers
agreed to substitute.
Teachers are asking for a 2
percent pay raise and are
trying to maintain the con-
tract they had before
September, Goldenberg said.
In addition to the raise,
teachers are asking for a
$50,000 life insurance
policy, some health in-
surance coverage and to re-
tain a tuition cut for
teachers who have students
in the school, Goldenberg
said.
"Teachers have bent over
backward, but all they have
received is a slap in the
face," Goldenberg said.
"English education and
teachers are second to the
yeshiva's purpose," he said.
"That is understandable.
But the administration has
treated the English teachers
badly. They (the administra-
tion) have never bargained
in good faith."?
But Rabbi Freedman said,
"We have utmost respect for
our staff as educators and
professionals."
The administration's first
offer, made over a year ago,
would have eliminated all
teacher benefits, Goldenberg
said.
The teachers and a board
member made plans to meet

May 3 to discuss the latest
contract offer he said. But
the board member did not
show up.
"That was the last straw,"
Goldenberg said. "I have to
give credit to the teachers
because they didn't strike
earlier. But they thought the
yeshiva would bargain in
good faith."
The administration,
teachers and a state
mediator, Doris Petrus of the
Michigan Department of
Labor, were expected to
meet Wednesday evening.
In a written press release
Rabbi Freedman said,
"What we don't understand
is why the teachers would
strike without even giving
our proposal a hearing and
why they would deviate so
violently from. the course
they themselves have
prescribed. There can be no
rational response to their
regrettable action."
Goldenberg doesn't know
how long the strike will last.
"The ball is in the ad-
ministration's court. The
teachers have had it," he
said. ❑

Council Honors
Avern Cohn

Judge Avern Cohn will be
the honoree at this year's
banquet of the Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis of Greater
Detroit 6 p.m. May 22 at the
Westin Hotel. Judge Cohn

Avern Cohn

will be honored for his years
of service to the Jewish com-
munity on both the local and
national level.
Cohn is a graduate of the
University of Michigan Law
School and was admitted to
the Michigan Bar in 1949. He
served on the Michigan Social
Welfare Commission, Michi-
gan Civil Rights Commission,
and the Detroit Board of
Police Commissioners. Judge
Cohn was appointed by Presi-
dent Jimmy Carter in 1979.

