Yo Baxter! What is your take on this?
Traditionally Baxter thinks workers have to orgqanize to keep greedy
selfish business owners from starving them. What about when they are
local government?

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/teachers-in-portland-oregon-march-and-temporarily-block-bridge-in-third-week-of-strike/

Teachers in Portland march and temporarily block bridge in third week of
strike
Nov. 21, 2023 at 1:05 pm
In this KGW-TV image from video, striking teachers march across the
Burnside Bridge in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. KGW
reported that the Portland Association of Teachers union and their
supporters stopped in the middle of the bridge for about 15 minutes.
Portland teachers have been on strike since Nov. 1, with class sizes and
teacher salaries are among the key issues the union and the school
district have been negotiating. (KGW-TV via AP)
Striking Portland Public Schools teachers march along East Burnside St.
after blocking traffic on the Burnside Bridge on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023
in Portland, Ore. Portland teachers have been on strike since Nov. 1.
Students in Portland Public Schools, Oregon’s largest district,
have missed 11 days of class because of the walkout. (Dave Killen /The
Oregonian via AP)

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By CLAIRE RUSH
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Teachers in Portland, Oregon, temporarily shut
down a major bridge Tuesday morning as they marched in a strike started
roughly three weeks ago.

Members of the Portland Association of Teachers union and their
supporters stopped in the middle of the Burnside Bridge for about 15
minutes, KGW reported. By 9 a.m. the bridge was clear and cars were
driving across, according to the news outlet.

Photos posted by the union on its Facebook page showed teachers sitting
down on the bridge donning blue clothes and holding banners calling for
better pay and teaching conditions. The union had called on supporters
to meet at its headquarters, roughly half a mile from the bridge, at
7:30 a.m. before beginning the march at 8 a.m.

Portland teachers have been on strike since Nov. 1, shuttering schools
serving about 45,000 students in Oregon’s largest district. Students
have missed 11 days of class because of the walkout.

In marathon bargaining sessions that at times went through the night,
the teachers union and the district have negotiated pay, class sizes and
planning time for teachers.

The union initially proposed caps on class sizes, but amid pushback from
the district on how much that would cost, it is now asking instead for
increased pay for teachers whose class sizes surpass certain thresholds.

In recent days, questions over parent involvement in proposed committees
to oversee class sizes have become a major sticking point.

The union has proposed allowing parents to be a part of committees that
would decide whether students could be added to a class that has already
met the size threshold. The district said this would violate students’
privacy and that such decisions should be handled by teachers,
principals and school administrators.

On Monday morning, the union said school board members had rejected a
tentative agreement. In a news conference, board members disputed the
claim but said they felt a deal was “very, very close.”

The two sides appear to have made some progress on salary negotiations.
In its latest proposal on Monday, the district proposed cost-of-living
adjustments that would increase teacher salaries by roughly 13% over
three years, bringing it closer to the roughly 20% pay increase over
three years that the union had initially asked for.

CLAIRE RUSH
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:59:07 -0800, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Yo Baxter! What is your take on this?

Why do you care what some random person on Usenet thinks about an issue?