Jersey City teachers take step toward first strike since 1998

JERSEY CITY — Jersey City teachers are inching closer toward striking for the first time since a five-day strike in 1998 that caused pandemonium citywide.

The teachers union, which has been battling the 29,000-student school district over health care costs, voted yesterday to authorize a strike as a last resort, according to two sources with knowledge of the vote. Teachers have worked under an expired contract since the beginning of the school year and a deal for a new pact does not appear close.

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