The sides will return to bargaining on the other big issue of the strike, automation, extending the old agreement to January 15.
Wages have stagnated over the last two contracts while employers have had some of their most profitable years on record. Increasing automation is also threatening jobs.
Gallego travels to Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District and will be joined by Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is running against Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, “to engage the constituents Fitzpatrick is ignoring as he backs his party’s reckless budget resolution.”
Still, teachers, families and advocates remain concerned about the stability of Head Start. The Trump administration is closing several regional offices and laying off the staff who support the program, which has led to funding delays that threatened to close individual preschools.
“If you read the news a lot last year, you might have seen that we made history with the largest state [funding] increase ever. However, it only filled 11 percent of the total gap in funding that our schools need,” said Children First’s Priyanka Reyes-Kaura.
BCOC’s Economic Self-sufficiency Program has now reached 420 families becoming financially independent since its inception.
I was shocked that anyone would consider him a good choice, writes Centennial parent Nancy Pontius.
