{"id":80289,"date":"2026-10-21T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/thousands-of-california-public-employees-begin-strike-over-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T18:55:18","slug":"thousands-of-california-public-employees-begin-strike-over-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/thousands-of-california-public-employees-begin-strike-over-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of California public employees begin strike over contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEIU Local 1000, representing nurses and teachers, pushing for higher wages, telework and affordable healthcare<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> state workers began a sweeping, one-day strike on Wednesday, with workers set to rally outside government buildings in several cities, as tensions boiled over lapsed contract negotiations with Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>SEIU Local 1000, a union that represents roughly 100,000 public employees, including nurses and teachers, has been pushing for higher wages, flexible telework and affordable healthcare.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/21\/california-nurses-teachers-strike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEIU Local 1000, representing nurses and teachers, pushing for higher wages, telework and affordable healthcare Thousands of California state workers began a sweeping, one-day strike on Wednesday, with workers set to rally outside government buildings in several cities, as tensions boiled over lapsed contract negotiations with Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s administration. SEIU Local 1000, a union &#8230; <a title=\"Thousands of California public employees begin strike over contract\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/thousands-of-california-public-employees-begin-strike-over-contract\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Thousands of California public employees begin strike over contract\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}