He Los Angeles Teachers Union plans to join strike three days advance notice, possibly within two weeks, from thousands of non-teaching workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)actions likely to lead to school closures, according to the Los Angeles Times, which first reported on it.
SEIU Local 99, which represents more than 25,000 canteen workers, bus drivers, watchmen, special education assistants and others, has stalled in its months-long negotiations with LAUSD over demands for a 30% overall pay increase. for the lowest paid.
Expected that the union announces the timing of its three-day strike at a joint rally with the teachers’ union on Wednesday.
The Los Angeles Teachers Union (UTLA) is also in the midst of labor negotiations, seeking 20% salary increase over two years and a long list of school initiatives.
On Friday, the union sent a letter to LAUSD superintendent Alberto Carvalho and announced that he would terminate the contract with the district, a legal move that would allow its members to join the Local 99 strike, according to information posted online by the teachers’ union.
UTLA’s letter to County Accuses Los Angeles Unified of unreasonably clinging to a multi-million dollar reserve and negotiating in bad faith, saying that Los Angeles Unified has “barely moved its stance on such important issues as class sizes, staff ratios, compensation, special education.” “. , Black Student Achievement Plan, Community Schools, and more.”
UTLA represents Los Angeles school teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians.
The next negotiating session with the teachers’ union will take place on March 17. Meanwhile, both unions plan to meet and present their demands to the Los Angeles City Council on March 15 at 4:30 pm.
It is not known whether the district will be able to keep campuses open if both unions go on strike at the same time.
During the six-day teachers’ strike in 2019 campuses remained open providing food and supervision, but tuition was limited and attendance was low.
“When we have 35,000 UTLA members joining 25,000 SEIU members in their three-day UPC strike, that’s 60,000 people,” the union said online. “Once LAUSD experiences this, you know they won’t want to go through this again. This will help us get LAUSD to agree to our demands.”
Source: La Opinion
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