Puerto Rican Teachers Suspend Strike

Public school teachers voted Wednesday to suspend a 10-day strike in the U.S. Caribbean island that shuttered classrooms and sparked clashes between protesters and police.

About 10,000 teachers nearly unanimously approved the recommendation of their union’s leadership to suspend the weakening strike, which began Feb. 20 after 30 months of negotiations with the U.S. territory’s government fell through. Teachers are seeking pay raises and better working conditions, including more books, computers and other materials.

Teachers Federation chief Rafael Feliciano, addressing union members packed inside a San Juan stadium, said he would keep pressing the government to meet their demands and warned a work stoppage could resume.”*

*From: http://ap.google.com
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