Q&A: New Oakland teachers union leader hopes to end marathon stalemate in contract negotiations, get a raise for members - Inside Bay Area

Q&A: New Oakland teachers union leader hopes to end marathon stalemate in contract negotiations, get a raise for members - Inside Bay Area:

Q&A: New Oakland teachers union leader hopes to end marathon stalemate in contract negotiations, get a raise for members

By Katy Murphy Oakland Tribune

Posted:   07/22/2012 12:00:00 AM PDT

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OAKLAND -- The Oakland teachers union and the school district administration have a notoriously strained -- some would say, dysfunctional -- relationship. The two sides haven't agreed on much of anything lately, including a collective bargaining agreement, which expired way back in June 2008. In 2010, the school board imposed a contract on the group's roughly 2,500 members, which is still in effect.

This month Trish Gorham succeeded Betty Olson-Jones as the new president of the Oakland Education Association. The Oakland native and 30-year teaching veteran taught at Washington