IEA intervenes in mask/testing lawsuit against tiny handful of non-compliant teachers

* Press release…

Illinois Education Association (IEA) intervenes in Edwardsville-Triad lawsuit; seeks enforcement of mandates for masks, vaccines, testing

Today, the unions representing teachers and support staff in the Edwardsville and Triad school districts filed a motion to intervene in a Madison County lawsuit in an effort to protect the safety of the workplaces and the health and lives of students and employees by keeping the governor’s vaccine-or-test order in place.

In late September, three teachers from the Triad Community Unity School District #2 and seven from the Edwardsville Community Unit District #7 filed a lawsuit claiming the districts did not have the authority to tell school employees they need to either be vaccinated or to test at least once a week for the COVID-19 virus. Instead, the suit says, these decisions should be left solely to local health department authorities and that the order should be lifted.

The court filings today were made on behalf of the 660 combined members of the Edwardsville Education Association (EEA) and Edwardsville School Service Personnel Association (ESSPA), and another 361 members of the Triad Education Association (TEA), Triad Educational Support Personnel Association (TESPA) and the Triad Custodial, Maintenance and Utlity Association (TCMUA), combined.

Read more: https://capitolfax.com/2021/10/08/iea-intervenes-in-masktesting-lawsuit-against-tiny-handful-of-non-compliant-teachers/