Public schools in Portland, Oregon, will be closed Wednesday as teachers go on strike with no agreement reached between their union and the school district on a new contract.
“It’s official: We are on strike to ensure the district meets our demands so that every Portland student can attend a great public school,” the Portland Association of Teachers said in a Facebook post Tuesday.
Portland Public Schools – one of the largest school districts in the Pacific Northwest – has more than 49,000 students across its 81 schools, according to the district’s website. The union represents more than 4,000 certified educators in the district, according to its Facebook page.
The work stoppage comes as thousands of workers across the country have gone on strike in recent months, from Hollywood writers to nurses, factory workers and autoworkers.
Good for them. Great to see all the unions in the US taking a stand. That it how Europe ended up with amazing worker rights. Stay firm.
I was gonna say unions are the greatest thing invented since sliced bread, but it turns out unionization as we know it today came about like 50-100 years before sliced bread was invented.
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Where does a bread knife rank?
In the middle, any way you slice it.
Well played.
