The State - News from Feb. 3, 1987

A Superior Court judge ruled that a two-day Sacramento teachers’ strike last month was illegal and prohibited the union from renewing the walkout. Judge James Ford issued a preliminary injunction against the Sacramento City Teachers Assn., saying the union had failed to exhaust all negotiations, including fact-finding, before ordering the walkout. About 1,600 of the Sacramento City Unified School District’s 2,200 teachers went on strike Jan. 20 at 72 schools, seeking a 10% pay raise and a resolution of issues including a transfer policy and pay for adult-education teachers. The district had offered the teachers a 6% hike shortly before negotiations were broken off by both sides. The district is the state’s seventh largest, with 44,000 students. The strike was the first in the district’s 112-year history.