{"id":190331,"date":"2026-02-23T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190331\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:13:07","slug":"oakland-teachers-authorize-strike-amid-stalled-contract-negotiations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190331\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Teachers Authorize Strike Amid Stalled Contract Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>One week after teachers in San Francisco staged a four-day strike, educators in Oakland have voted to authorize a strike of their own if contract negotiations with the school district fail to produce an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland Education Association, which represents nearly 3,000 educators, announced that 91% of its members voted to authorize a strike, citing stalled labor negotiations and demands for higher wages.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Anderson, who teaches second grade at Manzanita Community School, said educators are preparing for the possibility of a walkout \u2014 even as many would prefer to focus on their classrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 23, 2026 One week after teachers in San Francisco staged a four-day strike, educators in Oakland have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-190331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190331","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=190331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}