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The legality of teacher strikes vary from state to state. Collective bargaining by public sector employees and therefore teachers is explicitly illegal in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. 12 states have explicitly stated that teacher strikes are legal. These states are Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois ...
The 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States began on February 22, 2018, after local activists compelled the West Virginia state leadership of the West Virginia branches of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association into holding a strike vote. The strike—which ended when teachers returned to ...
More than 30,000 public-school teachers of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) went on strike from January 14 to 22, 2019. [1] Protesting low pay, large class sizes, inadequate support staffs of nurses and librarians, and the proliferation of charter schools, the teachers went on strike for the first time in the district in 30 years.
The 2018 Oklahoma teachers' walkout began on April 2, 2018, with teachers across the state walking out to protest low pay, overcrowded classrooms, and tax cuts that resulted in lower state-wide education spending. It was the first such action in Oklahoma since 1990. [1] The OEA declared an end to the walkout on April 12 after an agreement to ...
March 21, 2023 at 12:57 PM. Schools across Los Angeles will be closed on Tuesday as support workers stage a three-day strike, effectively shuttering America’s second-largest school district ...
August 21, 2024 at 11:59 PM. Aug. 21—Cheney Public Schools and the teacher's union have yet to come to a tentative agreement on a new contract, bringing the union's vote to strike on the first ...
As a teacher strike looms, Fresno’s school district has 2,300 substitute teachers ready to cover classes. A final strike authorization vote count is still days away, but the district said it’s ...
The strike began on October 17, 2019, when both unions failed to reach a contract agreement with Chicago Public Schools over compensation, benefits, staffing, wrap-around services such as counselors, nurses, and librarians, and caps on class sizes. [2][3] On October 31, the strike officially ended when the mayor and the Chicago Teachers Union ...