Union members met at Mount Tacoma High School Friday morning to discuss the tentative agreement reached Thursday night. Ninety-nine percent of those in attendance voted to ratify the deal.

Here is the new salary schedule ratified by 99% of voting members today. There were a lot of tears over the life changing increases in salary. #WeTeachTacoma pic.twitter.com/akBwMa6zet

Tacoma teachers started striking Thursday, September 6, which was the scheduled start of the new school year. The Tacoma Education Association was fighting for more money, as part of the McCleary Decision, which set aside $2 billion for teacher salaries in the current budget.