Campbell High School teachers say they are planning to stage a work-to-rule day next week to protest the ongoing labor dispute with the state.

Activities normally volunteered outside of contractual hours will be suspended Thursday, a news release says. 

Teachers will stop all co-curricular activities they are not compensated for including, coaching, advising, tutoring, meeting and contacting parents, helping struggling students, and providing vital special education and college prep services in accordance with the contract currently being imposed by the governor.

Negotiations in the 16-month-old contract battle are set to resume Wednesday, according to the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

The release includes comments from teachers and a student. Matthew Calica, freshmen class adviser and automotive teacher, had this to say:

“We teachers have been treated like free baby sitters by the state, but we do much more than baby sit. We educate, we motivate, we push and pull, we do whatever it takes to get the job done…The problem is, we are tired of being disrespected.”

The teachers union launched a website last week devoted to the efforts to resolve the contract issue. Check out the Civil Beat story comparing HSTA’s timeline with Gov. Abercrombie’s here.