TACOMA, Wash. -- Hundreds of Tacoma Public Schools teachers voted Thursday to continue a strike, ignoring a Pierce County judge's order on Wednesday that they return to work.
As a result, Tacoma Public Schools was forced to cancel class Friday for all 28,000 students in the state's third largest district.
Members of the Tacoma Education Association voted at the Tacoma Dome to keep the strike going due to their ongoing contract standoff. Ninety-three percent of the members voted in favor of the strike.
Prior to the vote, hundreds of teachers arrived at Lincoln High School Thursday morning with signs in hand and were picketing in front of the school. They were joined by about 100 students who marched with them in support of the strike, which the union called after negotations failed to resolve dispute over teacher pay, class size and the way teachers are transferred or re-assigned.
http://www.king5.com/news/education/Judge-orders-Tacoma-teachers-back-to-work-will-they-go-129876508.htmlIf you live in the Tacoma area,are a UNION member and have time go down and join their picket and if you work for a vendor that supplies the Tacoma school district DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE TO MAKE DELIVERY'S SOLIDARITY