""On Friday, we ended a two-week process where members voted to give our executive board and our president authorization to call a strike," says Olivia Udovic, who is one of 60 teachers on the Oakland Education Association's (OEA) bargaining team. "We have not decided on a strike date. We will be providing the community with 48-72 hour notice of an impending strike. It is not what we what to do.""
"They have made some limited movement from that," explains Udovic, without going into details. Teachers want a 14% pay raise, adding that will help the district to retain teachers. "We see a large percentage of teachers that leave our district to go work in a neighboring school district because they can't afford to live in Oakland with the wage they make in Oakland. And they can make $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 a year, working in a neighboring school district,"
Teachers and their families prepared signs and authorized the executive board to call a strike, while no strike date has been set and 48–72 hour notice will be provided. Teachers have worked without a contract since July and bargaining saw limited movement after the district initially offered a 0% raise. Teachers seek a 14% pay increase to improve retention, cite significant pay gaps with neighboring districts, ask for smaller class sizes, and call for cuts to outside contractors and high-level administrative positions. A new fiscal team identified misallocated funds, reducing the district's apparent deficit.
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