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  • A Statewide Strike in 2025? Here’s How it Could Happen

    Picture this: educators from San Diego to San Jose, LA to Sacramento, all at once taking to the streets and withholding our labor, demanding the conditions and wages we’ve been…


  • We Can’t Wait Campaign off to a Rainy Start: Is the gloom just in the weather?

    The CTA-led “We Can’t Wait” campaign in the Bay Area got started with a rally in Oakland’s downtown Oscar Grant Plaza onTuesday, February 4. Near-constant and occasionally heavy rain had…


  • #11 Why Our Strike Accomplished So Little

    From the OEA Rank-and-File Caucus  5/18/23 Last month … we proposed some possible actions to maximize pressure on the District to win our contract demands, since Build Our Power (BOP)…


  • #10 Why Wildcat?

    A wildcat strike is any strike not sanctioned by the local or national union. Sometimes they are about local issues— fired reps, forced overtime or unpaid wages (SFUSD!) but others…


  • #10 Oakland Wildcat:  “We won’t take less!”

    On Friday March 24 several hundred Oakland high school and middle school teachers walked out in an wildcat  strike to put pressure on OUSD in the current contract negotiations  and…


  • #9 OEA—Will There Be A Strike?

    The last time Oakland teachers (OEA) negotiated a contract with OUSD, in 2019, it culminated in a seven-day strike. A strike seems likely this year too. Just before the 2019…


  • #9 United Teachers of Richmond (UTR) and WCCUSD Headed for a Strike?

    The first California Teacher Strike was in Richmond in 1965. There have been no strikes in what is now WCCUSD since. After 10 months and 19 days of negotiations for…


  • #8 WCCUSD Declares Impasse How will UTR Respond?

    “Give Union Members a Fair Contract, or they will take action.” UTR President, John Zabala, said  this at the most recent WCCUSD School Board meeting. Union members at the meeting…


  • #8 UC Graduate Students Strike

    In the biggest national strike of the year, 48,000 Academic Workers are on week four of their strike across the ten campus University of California system. The bargaining units include academic…


  • #7 48,000 U.C. Graduate Students On Strike

    On November 14, everyday life at the ten campuses of the University of California will come to a halt as up to 48,000 workers – postdocs, graduate student researchers, teaching…


  • #5 OEA Strikes Over School Closures

    On April 29th, Oakland teachers were on strike for a day to oppose school closures.  Educators picketed in the morning at every school site; most classified employees followed their unions’…