At a 4 p.m. membership meeting tomorrow at Oakland Technical High School, teachers will take an important vote: whether to authorize an extended strike. As of this afternoon, the meeting has not been prominently featured on the
Oakland Education Association’s website, though I saw fliers promoting it on strike day.
Union leaders met Friday evening to determine the substance of tomorrow’s secret ballot and whether it would include strike authorization. My attempts to reach OEA President Betty-Olson Jones by phone that night and the next day were unsuccessful, but fortunately I saw her last night at the Oakland Museum of California reopening. (I love cornering sources while they’re out trying to enjoy themselves…)
Leave a commentOakland Tribune photographers D. Ross Cameron and Lane Hartwell chronicled this out-of-the-ordinary day. You can find their slideshow
here.
