While the National Education Association is used to being behind teacher strikes across the country, it has been gripped by the effects of a strike from its own staff for nearly two weeks as labor negotiations unfold.

The NEA locked out its professional staff, represented by their own union called the National Education Association Staff Organization, beginning on Monday, and employees at the union’s Washington, D.C., headquarters demonstrated outside.

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