State employees to join teachers in walkout for better pay
State employees plan to join Oklahoma teachers in walking off the job next month if lawmakers don't give them a pay raise. The Oklahoman reports the Oklahoma Public Employees Association decided Saturday that state workers will strike if more than $213 million in pay raises aren't approved by April 2. The decision by the employees group comes after the Oklahoma Education Association, the state's largest teacher's organization, announced plans for a work stoppage April 2 if lawmakers don't approve a $6,000 pay raise by April 1.
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