The Dallas School District teachers union has issued a new notice to go on strike, pushing back the strike date from this Friday to June 2.

Union members will strike June 2 if a collective-bargaining agreement is not reached prior to May 30, union President Michael Cherinka said. Solicitor Vito DeLuca confirmed the district received the new strike notice.

DeLuca also said the union can't go on strike again this year because the district is not going meet a requirement to provide 180 days of instruction to students. A teachers strike from Nov. 14 to Dec. 19 resulted in 22 school days being canceled.

Regarding the legality of a second strike, Cherinka said, "That's in PDE's (the Pennsylvania Department of Education's) hands. We would make them force the issue."

The district rescheduled days lost from the first strike and extended the school year to June 30, but the district has since cancelled nine days because of snow.

Teachers have not had pay increases since their last collective bargaining agreement expired in August 2015.

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