{"id":511438,"date":"2026-10-29T04:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/511438\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T04:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:52:12","slug":"more-than-1000-oakland-city-workers-could-strike-nov-5-over-stalled-contract-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/511438\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,000 Oakland city workers could strike Nov. 5 over stalled contract talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A major Oakland municipal union has called a one-day strike for next week if contract talks with the city fail to yield progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a rally and news conference Tuesday, leadership of IFPTE Local 21 said its members would take to the picket lines for an unfair labor practices strike on Nov. 5 if the two sides can\u2019t reach a fair contract agreement by then.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for FREE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This is NOT a paywall. 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Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/author\/kiley-russell\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/L1000172-edited-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  data-attachment-id=\"30842\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/l1000172-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/localnewsmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/L1000172-edited-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C2550&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,2550\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LEICA M10&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1579110543&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"L1000172\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/localnewsmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/L1000172-edited-1-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C777&amp;ssl=1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/author\/kiley-russell\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Kiley Russell, Bay City News\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major Oakland municipal union has called a one-day strike for next week if contract talks with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,115098,113047,74992,93,4306,96488,73419,29616,6974,196970,143,196971,145,144,59605,89555,29440,19106,89553],"class_list":["post-511438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-alameda-labor-council","tag-city-workers","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-featured","tag-featured-news","tag-ifpte-local-21","tag-labor-disputes","tag-labor-negotiations","tag-labor-unions","tag-municipal-employees","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-city-government","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-public-services","tag-seiu-local-1021","tag-staffing-shortages","tag-strikes","tag-unfair-labor-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511438","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=511438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}