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Bishop, union get closer on disagreement (literally)

Monday April 14, 2008 | 06:28 PM

Posted by Mark Guydish mguydish@timesleader.com

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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A West Hazleton native, I worked as a service technician repairing electronic mailing and shipping systems, a bike shop owner and an Emergency Medical Technician (among other jobs) before landing a reporter job at the Times Leader Hazleton Bureau in 1995. I started by covering primarily politics in Hazleton City and outlying municipalities, eventually became "social issues" team leader in the Wilkes-Barre office with the accent on education, and headed the Hazleton Bureau for a spell before returning to full-time reporting, my preferred position. I'm an avid cyclist and rode across the country in 1990, a trip of more than 5,000 miles from New Jersey to Seattle and down the coast to San Francisco. Years in the Boy Scouts made me a life long backpacker and camper, and I've yet to find a better way to enjoy the quiet lure of winter snow than cross country skiing.