As teachers across the country are fighting back against deteriorating conditions in public schools, the union’s are seeking to channel discontent into dead end appeals to the same politicians cutting school budgets.
Teachers, counselors, nurses and other members of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) on Monday began voting on whether to authorize a strike, as the union cited what it called “illegal, bad faith bargaining” by the district.
Truck drivers are reporting delays of up to a day to cross their cargo from Mexico to the United States at the principal commercial land port in the El Paso region.