"This month's four-day teacher strike, which mercifully concluded this morning, should not have caught anyone off guard. The San Francisco Unified School District and its teachers had been at loggerheads since March of last year. On Oct. 10, the two sides formally declared an impasse and ceased negotiating. In November, teachers held "practice pickets" at more than 100 schools. In early December they voted to authorize a strike by a 99 percent clip and then, in January, did so again by a nearly 98 percent"
"The district, also, was caught flat-footed by things it should have seen coming. It waited so long to resolve teacher concerns over non-monetary issues like sanctuary campuses and AI, that these issues ended up consuming valuable time during strike bargaining. And the district's contingency plans for the strike seemed to lean heavily on the ability to run some manner of programming out of school sites during a work stoppage"
A four-day teacher strike in San Francisco followed months of escalating conflict between the district and educators, with a formal impasse declared in October and overwhelming strike authorization votes in December and January. The mayor did not contact union leadership until days before the walkout. The district delayed addressing non-monetary concerns such as sanctuary campuses and AI, which consumed bargaining time. Contingency plans relied on running programs at school sites, but principals, administrators, and SEIU-covered staff voted sympathy strikes, making site-based programming impossible and leaving the district without effective operational alternatives.
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