With union vote looming, questions arise over charter-school consultants
Source: Philly.com
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STAFFERS and union organizers say ASPIRA Inc. of Pennsylvania has hired a New York firm with a troubled past to hold mandatory anti-union meetings at ASPIRA's Olney Charter High School.
Teachers at Olney Charter are to vote tomorrow on whether to form a union with the Alliance of Charter School Employees, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers.
Randy McCarthy and Andrew Gallin of National Consultants Associated Ltd. held several hours of meetings with staffers at the North Philadelphia school in recent days, including three meetings yesterday. Attendees called the meetings "anti-union" and questioned their timing during a critical period before Keystone Exams and the school's senior projects.
Efforts by the Daily News since Friday to reach McCarthy, Gallin and National Consultants Associated have been unsuccessful. No one answered the phone at three numbers listed for the company, and the firm appears to have no website.
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