KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Hundreds of newly enrolled career technical students from nine Kalamazoo County school districts were invited to attend student orientation at the Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency’s (KRESA) Career Connect Campus on Thursday.
As families were filing in, they were met by a group of uninvited guests just outside – a picket line of union representatives.
The two different scenes captured where things stand after more than two years of contract negotiations between KRESA and the Kalamazoo Career Technical Education Association (KCTEA), the union representing about 32 instructors, counselors, and support staff at the campus…