The Hamilton County Education has sued the Hamilton County Board of Education, saying the county schools are refusing to confer with them about items set to be "reopened" that were in the prior contract.
The HCEA, in the suit in Chancery Court, said the reopeners are still to be negotiated despite the fact that a bill was passed ending collective bargaining in the Tennessee schools.
The suit says, "Each day that the defendant Board of Education persists in its refusal to engage in the negotiation of 'reopeners' deprives the plaintiff HCEA of the 'recognition' it enjoys by law.
. . and deprives the plaintiff HCEA and the professional employees it represents of their contractual and statutory rights to negotiate."
The suit, filed by attorneys Richard Colbert and Courtney Wilbert of Franklin, Tn., also asks that the collective bargaining law be declared unconstitutional.