{"id":1634584,"date":"2022-09-06T18:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1634584"},"modified":"2022-09-06T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:04:36","slug":"seattle-teachers-poised-to-strike-and-delay-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seattle-teachers-poised-to-strike-and-delay-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Teachers Poised To Strike And Delay School Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseattle-teachers-poised-to-strike-and-delay-school-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1634584&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/seattle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle<\/a> teachers are poised to go on strike over a flurry of demands, including more money, threatening to delay the start of the school year.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Seattle Education Association said Tuesday that members of the teachers union have voted\u00a0to authorize a strike if the union does not reach a deal with the school district by Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The school year is set to begin on Wednesday for Seattle Public Schools, Washington state\u2019s largest school district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Bargaining Team continues to work at the table and we still hope to announce an agreement rather than a strike tonight,\u201d the union said in an email to members.<\/p>\n<p>About 75% of the union\u2019s 6,000 members voted on the issue, and about 95% of those voted in favor of the strike over the long weekend, according to the union. Last week, the union\u2019s board recommended members vote in favor.<\/p>\n<p>The union has been locked in negotiations with the Seattle school district\u00a0for months. The union\u2019s main demands are higher pay, teacher workload caps, and a guarantee that the district will\u00a0maintain certain staffing ratios for multilingual and special education students.<\/p>\n<p>One teacher, Jamillah Bomani of Leschi Elementary School, said teachers want to come to school on Wednesday, but they also want to make sure they have \u201ceverything we need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be here on Wednesday, we want to be ready, but we want to make sure we are coming back to school with everything we need and everything our students need,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/education-lab\/seattle-teachers-union-members-authorize-strike-teeing-up-delay-to-the-school-year\/\">said<\/a> during a video call announcing the strike authorization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we are still holding out hope that something will happen and we can come tomorrow, but we are ready and willing if we need to to let the district know that we\u2019re not going to show up if we don\u2019t have everything our students need,\u201d Bomani said.<\/p>\n<p>The union told teachers it hopes to announce a deal with the district later on Tuesday, but if they cannot reach one, the strike will move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Picket lines start at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday barring a deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been here every day, putting in the hours from early in the morning to late at night,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/education\/seattle-education-association-authorizes-teacher-strike\/281-5d8453cf-740c-4685-8a13-14997f7e91b1\">said<\/a> Marla Rasmussen, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlewea.org\/about-us\/paraprofessionals\/\">member<\/a> of the union\u2019s bargaining team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to do so, we\u2019re prepared to stay all night as long as it takes, we\u2019ve done it before and we\u2019ll do it again. It\u2019s really important that we have your support and backing and understanding that we are all in this together in solidarity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers in Washington\u2019s fourth-largest school district, Kent, are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/education\/mothers-providing-lunch-kent-students-amid-strike-districts-announcement\/281-3e4129b5-2b0d-4b95-83c2-2b1d620b83b8\">currently<\/a> on strike.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, teachers across the country went on strike over a slew of issues, including demands for remote learning, higher pay, and smaller class sizes.\u00a0Teachers unions authorized strikes in Chicago, Sacramento, and Minneapolis, among other places.<\/p>\n<p>In early January, the Chicago Teachers Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-chicago-public-schools-teacher-union-covid-20220104-b2kc6eoy55c45ffoxamgp4zebi-story.html\">shut down<\/a> the country\u2019s third-largest school district, demanding more pandemic safety measures, including more remote learning, face masks, and COVID testing. The strike cost Chicago students five school days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle teachers are poised to go on strike over a flurry of demands, including more money, threatening to delay the start of the school year. The\u00a0Seattle Education Association said Tuesday that members of the teachers union have voted\u00a0to authorize a strike if the union does not reach a deal with the school district by Tuesday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1634586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1634586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}