{"id":1385273,"date":"2019-01-19T16:43:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=963076"},"modified":"2019-01-19T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:43:13","slug":"denver-teachers-voting-on-strike-after-contract-talks-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/denver-teachers-voting-on-strike-after-contract-talks-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver teachers voting on strike after contract talks fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Denver teachers are voting on whether to strike after negotiators failed to reach an agreement before their contract expired.<\/p>\n<p>KDVR-TV\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/2019\/01\/19\/denver-teachers-to-vote-on-strike-after-negotiations-fail\/\">reports<\/a>\u00a0talks ended Friday about 90 minutes before the midnight deadline. Members of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association will vote Saturday and Tuesday on whether to walk out.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest a strike could start would be Jan. 28. It would be the first teacher walkout in Denver since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers are asking for raises and incentives for training. Their union says the district is losing good teachers to higher-paying districts.<\/p>\n<p>Denver Public Schools offered to increase base salaries by 10 percent and an additional $26.5 million in total compensation. That was about $8 million less than teachers wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides said they were disappointed that they hadn&#8217;t reached an agreement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/denver-teachers-voting-on-strike-after-contract-talks-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Denver teachers are voting on whether to strike after negotiators failed to reach an agreement before their contract expired. KDVR-TV\u00a0reports\u00a0talks ended Friday about 90 minutes before the midnight deadline. Members of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association will vote Saturday and Tuesday on whether to walk out. The earliest a strike could start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-24 07:21:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}