PORTLAND, Ore. — After striking teachers entered the Oregon Convention Center and disrupted a Metro meeting with a school
board member in attendance and picketed outside the homes
of two Portland Public Schools officials this week, the district’s
attorney sent a letter to the Portland Association of Teachers
asking it to stop, or there could be legal action.

A few dozen people gathered outside the home of PPS Chief of
Staff Jonathan Garcia’s home and “threateningly taunted him
by asking him if their presence made him feel uncomfortable,"
according to the district and a letter written by attorney Dennis
Westlind on behalf of PPS and sent to PAT leaders Wednesday.

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Portland Teachers Union President Gwen Sullivan.

    
Tim Maguire

The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike was the eighth and
longest work stoppage in baseball history, as well as the fourth
in-season work stoppage in 22 years. The strike began on
August 12, 1994, and resulted in the remainder of that season,
including the postseason and the World Series, being canceled.

This was the first time in ninety years, since 1904, that a World
Series was not played. The strike was suspended on April 2,
1995, after 232 days, making it the longest such stoppage in
MLB history and the longest work stoppage in major league.

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Evergreen Public Schools have announced
that school will not start tomorrow as it had hoped.

The teachers union and the district failed to come to an agreement
on new contracts.

President Reagan with US Attorney General William French Smith making a statement to the press regarding the air
traffic controllers strike from the Rose Garden. White
House Photo/Ronald Reagan Library

On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan began firing
11,359 air-traffic controllers striking in violation of his order
for them to return to work. The executive action, regarded
as extreme by many, significantly slowed air travel for
months.

 
CAMILLE BOHANNON

Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
(August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023)

Singer Tony Bennet received many accolades,
including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime
Achievement Award, and two Primetime
Emmy Awards. Bennett was named an NEA
Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree
and founded the Frank Sinatra School of the
Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. He sold
more than 50 million records worldwide and
earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.