< newer | older > The Scranton Diocese Association of Catholic School Teachers, the union that once represented many local Catholic teachers and hopes to do so again, took their fight to Bishop Joseph Martino's doorstep almost literally by staging a picket outside the Chancery office this afternoon, beginning at 3 p.m.

Martino has repeatedly said the the rejection of the union in favor of an "Employee Relations Program" is final and irrevocable, and union president Michael Milz keeps saying that's "not acceptable." That makes this picket -- the start of daily pickets until school ends, Milz promised -- a meeting of the proverbial irresistible force running into the immovable object.

Without further comment, here are a few pictures of that proverbial meeting.





At one point, the line stretched down the block past Holy Redeemer High School. The hope was to reduce congestion for non-picketing pedestrians using the sidewalk:

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