clinton township school district, 2019, extended school year

If this total is indeed accurate, it was a reflection not of support for the contract, but the fact that educators had no confidence that the unions would bring back anything better. Without reporting how many teachers voted, the SCTA claimed that the vote was 98.2 percent in favor. With the strike momentum destroyed, the unions felt that members’ resolve would be weakened enough to ratify the contract. Lacking a rank-and-file organization independent of the pro-management CTA and SEIU, Sacramento educators were unable mount an organized collective response to this attack, organize the rejection of the contract, and carry forward the struggle for their demands. The unions made a late weekend pact with the district to impose a betrayal and rushed to send teachers back to school the next day before they had a chance to read the Tentative Agreement. The refusal of strike pay was not because of lack of money, but represented a conscious decision to undermine the strike by the leaders of California Teachers Association (CTA), who sit on a $358 million strike fund. Union members suffered the brutal denial of strike pay during their eight-day strike, a tactic meant to exacerbate their economic hardship and weaken their resolve to oppose the sellout agreement. These attacks come one month after two unions, Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA) and Service Employees International Union, Local 1071 (SEIU) imposed a sharp reduction in educators' living standards by imposing pay “raises” of 4 percent, less than half the current inflation rate of 8.5 percent. The district has also unilaterally extended the 24 school years to make up for funds lost during the strike.

The latest austerity measures include the layoff of 106 school employees in the district and looming cuts due to a $16 million budget deficit. In the aftermath of the Sacramento teachers and school employees strike, major austerity measures are being implemented in the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) at the discretion of the Sacramento County Board of Education (SCOE).

Clinton township school district, 2019, extended school year