The Nashua Teachers Union violated the law the other day. Public employees were handing out election flyers on school property. Today we have a new report that they broke the same law again, this time electronically, and violated their contract at the same time.
Adam Marcoux of the Nashua Teachers Union sent out an email with a Union update and a link to the NTU’s list of endorsed candidates. That was then forwarded by Maura Finneral, probably the NTU rep for Nashua North (and a member of the school staff) to over 150 union members on site. All with nashua.edu email addresses.
That’s electioneering!
The School District email account addresses, the servers, and equipment are all taxpayer property whose use for the promotion of candidates (or measures) violates state law (again!).
A similar email went to the NTU rep at Nashua High South, who forward it to over 170 members.
The second link – to the Nashua election update – includes the list of union endorsed candidates for next week’s election. They for whom you should vote.
Electioneering.
And since there are over 1000 members in the NTU if they all received the same or a similar email that is over 1000 violation of RSA 659:44-a
And…it violates the union’s contract with the district.
Art. 12:3 Distribution of Material – Mail BoxesOfficers or officials of the recognized teacher bargaining agent, and of no other teacher organization which purports to represent teachers for collective bargaining purposes, shall have the right to reasonable use of the school mail boxes for distribution of organizational material provided such materials are in good taste and provided that such materials shall not include campaign organization material related to local, state or national political matters.
Multiple violations of state election law and breach of contract.
What, people of Nashua (and the school board) are you prepared to do about this?
Nothing?
