It has also focused heavily on issues outside wages and benefits - leveraging legal power to negotiate on salaries to expand the scope of bargaining. The union is one of the state’s most active and has gone on three strikes in five years. “Our collective power forced OUSD to commit to living wages for educators, more resources in our schools, enforceable working conditions & common good issues for our students & their families,” the OEA said in a statement. The district also committed to advocating for Section 8 vouchers in a bid to aid homeless students, and to following a new law guiding school closure decisions. The union didn’t secure several of its demands after eight days of canceled classes, but it did lock in provisions aimed at giving it more policymaking power within the district.Ī new task force on Black student reparations and an existing one on “community schools” will both have union representation. Students in the Oakland Unified School District will return to full classroom instruction Tuesday, May 16, 2023, after the district and teachers announced a tentative deal ending a strike that had kept 34,000 students out of school for more than a week. Striking teachers rally outside City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, May 4, 2023.
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