Seattle, WA
SEATTLE SCHOOL STRIKE: District says ‘extremely productive’ talks continue tonight
Contract talks between the hanging Seattle Schooling Affiliation and Seattle Public Faculties proceed tonight. So says a media replace despatched by the district, calling the weekend talks “extraordinarily productive” to this point:
Seattle Public Faculties (SPS) and Seattle Schooling Affiliation (SEA) are making good progress on negotiations. The bargaining groups are working late into the night. We’re optimistic an settlement shall be reached so our college students can start college as quickly as attainable.=s and is posted to the web site at: https://www.seattleschools.org/information/start-of-school-delay … We’ll replace households and workers as early as attainable on Sunday.
District updates are right here; union updates are right here. SEA’s contract expired August thirty first, nearly three months into negotiations; the strike started on what was speculated to be SPS’s first day of courses, Wednesday. That is SEA’s first walkout since 2015. That strike, like this one, began on a Wednesday; a tentative settlement was introduced the next Tuesday morning.