This story was originally published by the Pikes Peak Bulletin.
Earlier this month, during a Labor Day event at Colorado Springs City Hall, educators announced plans to strike this fall over the Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education’s vote last year to end the only master agreement with a teachers union in El Paso County, which had been in place for over 50 years.
“D11 teachers are going on strike this fall because our Board of Education is full of anti-union, anti-teacher and anti-student members,” said educator and Colorado Springs Education Association (CSEA) member Sam Farnham during the Workers over Billionaires rally on Sept. 1. “They ended the contract with our union and we need your support to flip the board this election season.”…