OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA (AP) – The Oakland Unified School District and striking teachers have reached agreement on four “common good” provisions that had been sticking points during the walkout that is now in its second week.
“We are still on strike, but momentum is on our side,” the Oakland Education Association said on Twitter last Saturday night.
The union representing 3,000 educators, counsellors and other workers has maintained the district has failed to bargain in good faith on a new three-year contract that also makes more traditional demands like higher salaries. The striking workers want their contract to also include provisions that address racial equity, homelessness and environmental justice for students.
On Saturday night, four of those demands had been agreed upon, relating to housing and transportation, the community schools grant, the Black thriving community schools initiative, and school closures, the Bay Area News Group reported.
