Good afternoon!
About half the teachers in the SFUSD came to Balboa High School on Wednesday evening and voted, overwhelmingly, to authorize a strike. Along with votes by the unions representing school custodians and tradespeople, that means three unions could strike simultaneously if negotiations fail.
Teachers are negotiating salaries, raises, and resources. But Joe Eskenazi says what’s really goaded them to the brink of striking is the district’s ongoing, years-long payroll debacle. Read the sorry story of EMPower, the wildly expensive payroll software that still can’t get teachers paid on time.
In other dysfunction, three people involved in an ongoing dispute over the contentious parcel 36 were hit with restraining orders. That may put a hold on the punching and yelling, but the battle for the unclaimed sliver of land between Treat and Folsom continues.
Let’s see what next week brings.
Sara
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“EMPower is the steel girder that broke the camel’s back.”
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