The United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) went on strike on Monday, shutting down the San Francisco Unified School District’s 120 schools and robbing 50,000 children of their regularly scheduled education.
The strike is the first one in 50 years, reports ABC10, and will continue “until we win the schools our students deserve and the contracts our members deserve,” said UESF President Cassondra Curiel at a Monday press conference. Curiel’s statement suggests that the district is taking advantage of union members, but the current contract is already quite generous.
Fully credentialed K–12 teachers (those with a bachelor’s degree) who are in their very first year of service had a base salary of $73,689 as of January 1, 2025, according to school district data. These teachers receive an additional $1,897 from the Quality Teacher and Education Act (2008), billed as rewarding schools for improving student achievement, and $3,882 from the Fair Wages for Educators Act (2020), which instituted a parcel tax to increase teachers’ salaries by 7 percent, amounting to a total effective salary of $79,468…