Category Archives: Strikes

Inside Higher Ed: Day 10 on the Picket Line

Striking New York University graduate students trickled toward the picket line at 8 a.m. Monday, continuing the strike prompted by the university’s decision to end recognition of the graduate student union this summer. There has been no official contact between university and union officials, but strike supporters say their resolve is as strong as ever. Today will be their 10th day on strike.

GSOC Strike Center

phillyBurbs.com: Classes will resume Tuesday

Pennsbury – Monday will be the 21st and final day that striking Pennsbury teachers will walk the picket lines before they are forced by state law to return to the classrooms Tuesday, according to the state Department of Education.

That’s when the district and teachers union will begin the process of nonbinding arbitration – also known as final/best offer – in an effort to resolve the contract dispute.

KTVU: Deal Reached; SF School Strike Averted

San Francisco Unified School District officials and school worker union representatives reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract, averting a strike by approximately 1,200 food service, custodial and secretarial workers.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Oregon teachers’ strike settled; NCLB was issue

An agreement to settle a bitter teacher strike that began late last month, partly over issues surrounding the federal No Child Left Behind Act, was reached early Wednesday, representatives for both sides said.

Steve Kenney, a spokesman for the Oregon Education Association, and Wayne Kuechler, vice chairman of the Oregon Trail School Board, confirmed the settlement to The Associated Press but would not discuss the terms pending ratification votes Wednesday evening.

CBC Montreal: More teacher strike days coming

Teachers at the English Montreal School Board have voted to take three more strike days before the end of the year.

Teachers voted 67 per cent in favour of the move Monday night.

They also voted unanimously to reject the government’s latest contract offer.

“I take that as a sign that we’re very determined to get a settlement from the government, and very unhappy with the state of negotiations as they are right now,” says Ruth Rosenfield, president of the Montreal Teachers’ Association.

CBS5.com: San Francisco schools expect strike

With a looming strike expected to begin Thursday, San Francisco Unified School District officials indicated today that advanced plans have been made but declined to go into much detail.

Union officials are planning a news conference this evening and are likely to announce that they are giving 24 hours notice of a strike.

Service Employees International Union Local 790, which represents about 1,200 food service, custodial and secretarial workers, has been negotiating with the district since October 2004 for a raise and more money for dependents’ health insurance. The union’s members have been working under expired contracts for months.

Teachers’ strike enters third week

A teachers’ strike in Bucks County heads into its third week with no settlement in sight.

The two sides in the Pennsbury teachers’ strike met Wednesday night thanks to a mediator, but the talks broke off after just two hours.

The school board informed union members that it would cost the district more than $1 million if the strike lasts the full three weeks allowed by law.

Oregon: Teachers’ strike second longest in state history

It’s opening weekend for “Once Upon a Mattress,” Sandy High School’s fall musical. But the building is empty, quiet. The cast has the script memorized, but the set is not painted and the costumes are only half-complete.

Inside Higher Ed: Digging in at NYU

New York University graduate students, dozens at a time, took turns manning the picket lines for the second day Thursday. With no official contact between the graduate student union and the university, which ended recognition of the union this summer, strikers are thinking about the long haul.

Also see: NYU Grad/Undergrad Solidarity Committee

The New York Times: Graduate teaching assistants go on strike against NYU

After a last-ditch effort by a group of professors on Tuesday failed to convince officials at New York University to re-open labor negotiations with the union representing graduate teaching assistants, the union went on strike yesterday.

Inside Higher Ed: NYU graduate assistants on strike

Hundreds of New York University graduate assistants forsook the classroom for the picket line Tuesday, after a last ditch effort Monday by a delegation of faculty members failed to persuade NYU’s president to recognize the graduate student union.

Also see:
GSCO/Local 2110 UAW at NYU: STRIKE CENTER

College lecturers vote to strike

A further education college lecturers’ union is to call out some 26,600 members on strike on 16 November. Natfhe said that, in a ballot over a 2.8% pay offer, 71% of respondents backed the proposed strike. The turnout was 36%, with 6,820 votes for a strike and 2,740 against. The action affects 226 of the 283 colleges in England.

Shrugging off the government’s Pyrrhic victory in the BC teachers strike

On Monday, October 17, 20 000 teachers, union members and other supporters shut down the provincial capital of Victoria and marched on the legislature. Within 48 hours, it was clear that the teachers of British Columbia and their union, the BCTF, were on the verge of becoming victims of an institutionally driven betrayal of enormous proportions in terms of the size of the opportunity that was being squandered

Teachers may join S.F. food service strike

Some members of San Francisco’s teachers union may join a strike by food service, custodial and secretarial workers at San Francisco Unified School District that could hit the district in little more than a week.

Striking teachers, board to meet

Negotiating teams for the Pennsbury School District’s striking teachers’ union and its school board will meet tomorrow. The bargaining session was called by the state mediator working with the two sides, who are split on teacher pay and benefits. The time and place have not been revealed. The 800 teachers and their 11,000 students have not had class for nearly two weeks.

The New York Times: NYU grad students say they’ll strike to unionize
New York University’s union of graduate students has announced plans to strike next week. The university, which previously recognized the union, announced that it would no longer do so and union officials have said that they need a strike to get the university to return to collective bargaining. University officials have said that unionization was not good for the university, while union officials say that only collective bargaining can adequately protect the interests of teaching assistants.

Oregon hit by first strike of teachers since 1999

After 18 months of a bitter contract dispute, teachers in the sprawling Oregon Trail School District went on strike Tuesday, the first in the state to do so since 1999.