Schools over stadiums!

Our current healthcare system is damaging public education in multiple ways, but a switch to #CalCare could be transformational for our students & schools. Join us for our #SinglePayer & Public Ed webinar on April 18 to learn more & get involved: bit.ly/ED4SPwebinar

Happy 94th #Birthday to American labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta! I took this photo of her on the Oakland Education Association picket line in 2019. #unionstrong

School counselors help students in more ways than you may know. This week we celebrate them as a part of National School Counseling Week 2024. Learn more about the role of this essential profession: schoolcounselor.org/role

Donald Trump is a scab!

The goal of single-payer health care is universal, guaranteed health care for all. It is based on the ideal that health care is a human right – an acknowledgement that public health and well-being are moral obligations in a humane society. #WeAreCTA cta.org/educator/posts…

“We got another contract to negotiate — the social contract!”

— Stacy Davis Gates, President of the Chicago Teachers Union

#StandUpUAW

Congratulations to all these Oakland Education Association educators! Way to reach higher and always be improving your practice for your students. You are inspiring!

Oakland teachers stand with California Faculty Association

🚨Victory Alert🚨

OEA was awarded a legal victory declaring that our union has the right to fight racist school closures; this is another important step in the fight for the safe and racially just schools our students deserve.

📢DON’T CROSS THE LAT GUILD DIGITAL PICKET LINE

To support us in our walkout, we ask you not to
1) Click on LAT stories 
2) Engage with LAT brand accounts on social media 
3) Open LAT news alerts

Or otherwise engage with LAT content from midnight to 11:59 p.m. Jan. 19

A New Year's resolution suggestion for our lawmakers:

Fully fund our schools.

Educators are professionals with deep knowledge, skills, and expertise.

They should be paid like the professionals they are.

I spent my morning reading transcripts of interviews with teachers -- about their working conditions.

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OEA statement on the cancellation of ousdnews board meetings.

In May, Oakland Education Association spent 7 days on strike for students, families, and each other. Their big bargaining team won more than a bigger paycheck. Learn more about how they fought and won common good proposals here: cta.org/educator/posts… #Unite4OaklandStudents #WeAreCTA #25DaysOfCTA

#HUELGA !! ✊🏾

Remembering all the lives Henry Kissinger destroyed with the terrible violence he unleashed in countries like Chile, Vietnam, Argentina, East Timor, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. I never understood why people revered him. I will never forgive or forget.

Congratulations Assemblymember Liz Ortega! CA workers are in good hands.