November 19th, 2024

Strike Day 7

Charles Williams, with megaphone, leads march south on Washington Street. The marchers then headed east on Second Avenue and south on Broadalban Street to the community rally at the courthouse.

March, rally and a mediation break

Chanting "Get up, get down, Albany is a union town," are, from left, Kris McLaughlin, a retired Calapooia Middle School teacher; Nancy Greenman and Stacey Bartholomew. All three are Democrats.

  Monday — Day 7 of the Albany teachers strike — saw both sides take a break from mediation, morning picketing across the district and an afternoon march that started at Monteith Riverpark and ended with a community rally at the Linn County Courthouse.
  “We mediated for about 20 hours over the weekend and didn’t reach any TAs (tentative agreements),” Greater Albany Education Association President Dana Lovejoy said before the march. 

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“Two of the articles ​ proposed were non-economic, which means there’s no money attached at all. And we still could not come to an
agreement because management is doing regressive proposals. So it’s been pretty frustrating. Seeing all the support today is really encouraging to the bargaining team to keep going.”
 Tentative agreement has been reached on 21 of 34 articles presented ​​