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TACOMA, Wash. — Teachers voted overwhelmingly Monday in favor of a strike.
Tacoma Education Association spokesman Rich Wood said 87 percent of the union’s total membership voted to walk out. That means that after only seven days of school, the 28,000 children in Washington state’s third-largest school district will be staying home today.
Tacoma School District spokesman Dan Voelpel said the district will seek a court injunction today to terminate the strike, which school officials contend is illegal.
Teachers have been working without a contract since Sept. 1. The teachers union negotiated with the school district over the weekend, but the two sides failed to reach agreement.
