{"id":187078,"date":"2026-02-21T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187078\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:00:07","slug":"oakland-education-association-votes-to-authorize-potential-strike-citing-low-wages-large-classrooms-and-high-turnover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187078\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Education Association votes to authorize potential strike, citing low wages, large classrooms and high turnover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) &#8212; On Friday, members of the Oakland teachers&#8217; union voted to authorize a potential strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The union said members are advocating for a fair contract that &#8220;ensures the safe, stable, racially-just schools Oakland students deserve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Right now, OUSD educators are the lowest paid in the region, and as a result, the District loses nearly 400 hardworking, dedicated educators per year, costing the district $7.5 million annually,&#8221; said Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, president of the Oakland Education Association. &#8220;This is a waste of resources, destabilizes classrooms, and especially hurts our most vulnerable students. Oakland educators have been in this fight for the schools our students deserve for a long time-and we remain committed to stabilizing our schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">PREVIOUSLY: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/oakland-teachers-reach-agreement-ousd-avoid-1-day-may-strike-reverse-budget-cuts\/16286831\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland teachers reach agreement with school district to avoid 1-day strike<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The union said the strike vote comes after nearly 12 months of bargaining with OUSD holding at a 0% wage increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">More information is expected to be announced at a press conference on Saturday at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Oakland Education Association previously <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/ousd-strike-update-oakland-teachers-oea-teacher-salary\/13256867\/?userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_a_control-1938%2Cabcn_news_for_you_exp-528*variant_a_control-2203\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">held a strike in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) &#8212; On Friday, members of the Oakland teachers&#8217; union voted to authorize a potential strike.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[88026,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-187078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-88026","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}