Oakland teachers picketed outside the construction site of OUSD’s new $57 million administrative center under construction on Union Street Thursday, arguing that the money should instead be going toward classroom repairs.
The district's wage proposal on the table includes a 10% retroactive raise and a $5,000 one-time bonus for union members. It also provides every teacher with a raise of at least 13% and as much as 22%.
District officials remain adamant, however, that the union's proposals addressing homelessness, use of vacant properties and drought-tolerant landscaping shouldn't be part of the bargaining process and are cost-prohibitive.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter. “While the district agrees that these issues should be addressed, and we are working on many of them, the issues cannot be tackled through school district budgets alone. They demand multi-agency government support," Johnson-Trammell said in a statement released by the district.
The district is spending millions on a new central administrative center instead of fixing urgent safety issues at schools, according to the teachers union.
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