San Francisco teachers to walk out Monday against austerity in the richest tech enclave on the planet
Saturday, February 7, 2026
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On Monday, San Francisco teachers, members of the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF), will launch the first district-wide strike since 1979, protesting decades of bipartisan austerity in public education, with 97.6% voting in favor of the strike.
The strike, coinciding with a wave of working-class resistance, including 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and healthcare professionals, demands fully funded family healthcare, enforceable class-size limits, and more support for special education, amidst a projected $100 million budget shortfall.
San Francisco's public schools face severe shortages of special education staff, counselors, and support personnel, with around a quarter of positions remaining vacant, while the city is home to 82 billionaires and 342,400 millionaires, highlighting the grotesque social inequality and conscious policy of funneling tax breaks to the tech and finance elite.
