Oakland teachers authorize union leaders to call strike

05-05-2010

By Katy Murphy/Oakland Tribune

Teachers in the city's public schools have granted union leaders the authority to call a longer strike to settle a labor dispute with the district. One-quarter of the union's 2,800 members turned out to vote Monday night; the results were released Tuesday evening. Of the 755 ballots cast, about 75 percent were in favor of the authorization, the union reported. The authorization means the union's 16-member board may call a strike that's less than 10 days long. An indefinite strike must be approved by a council of representatives from each of the district's 100-plus schools. "It gives us a real mandate for what we've been doing: keeping the heat on the district," said Betty Olson-Jones, Oakland Education Association president. (more...)

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