A couple weeks ago, Newton parent Lital Asher-Dotan filed a motion seeking damages from the Newton Teachers Association for their two-week strike. Now, there’s a class-action lawsuit.

Parents Dmitriy Sokolovskiy and Barbara Cipriani have signed on to Asher-Dotan’s lawsuit, on behalf of themselves and their children.

The motion filed with the suit requests the plaintiffs be divided into two groups—students and parents—and lists defendants as the NTA, the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the National Educators Association, as well as NTA President Michael Zilles.

The motion notes that the plaintiffs want to “bring multiple tort and contract counts against the existing and proposed union defendants.”

Cipriani and her family, the motion reads, “invested all their family resources to take on significant mortgage debt to move to Newton,” where her son Gabriel was doing well in the eighth grade.

“The strike brought absolute confusion and threw upside down his world and put him and his family at danger,” the motion reads. “Barbara had to scramble to find care for him for each day as Barbara is single working mom on a new job. His grandmother was able to help some, but she could not handle his needs full-day for two weeks.”

The whole motion can be read below.

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