Mathews employees OK pact

VIENNA — Nonteaching employees in the Mathews Local School District, whose contract ratification vote deadlocked at 12-12 last week, voted again tonight on the same proposal and ratified it.

The vote on the three-year package was 17-9, said Ron Blatt, field representative for Local 611 of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees. The local represents the district’s 30 custodians, cafeteria employees and bus drivers.

Blatt had said earlier the union would have issued a 10-day strike notice had the new contract been rejected. The local had given a strike notice effective March 14, but withdrew it after negotiations with a federal mediator.

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