California state-worker union cancels Monday strike
SACRAMENTO — California’s largest public-employee union on Friday canceled a planned one-day strike, averting a potentially disruptive protest that would have kept up to 95,000 state employees off the job.
The Service Employees International Union Local 1000 said negotiators from the union and the state “both feel we have found a pathway forward.”
“Our goal has never been to go on strike. It has always been to get a contract we can all be proud of,” Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker said in a note posted on the union’s website. “We will provide constant updates throughout the day and into the night, if necessary. Stay tuned.”
Walker did not offer details about the breakthrough that led to the cancellation.
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