LAUSD strike underway: How to survive the 3-day walkout
1 year, 9 months ago

LAUSD strike underway: How to survive the 3-day walkout

LA Times  

United Teachers of Los Angeles and SEIU 99 members hold a joint rally at Grand Park in a show of solidarity. Here is a guide for coping with the three-day Los Angeles Unified School District walkout that began early Tuesday morning and is set to last until Thursday. Labor board won’t halt LAUSD strike for now, but could still act after a Monday review Massive three-day LAUSD teacher and staff strike set for Tuesday, closing all schools L.A. teachers union seeks 20% raise, saying educators are stressed out and priced out School bus driver John Lewis chats with colleagues at the end of his day last week in Gardena. Parents blindsided by looming LAUSD walkout that is closing schools Planned L.A. Unified strike would close schools. Where to pick up meals for students during the LAUSD strike Jessica Aguilera, a parent, waits to pick up her children at 153rd Street Elementary School.

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Crowd protests LGBTQ+ education in Los Angeles; two arrested at LAUSD offices
1 year, 4 months ago

Crowd protests LGBTQ+ education in Los Angeles; two arrested at LAUSD offices

LA Times  

About 150 demonstrators who oppose LGBTQ+ education marched on Monday from City Hall to the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters, where two counterprotesters were taken into custody as dozens of officers kept the opposing groups apart after heated exchanges. “And we don’t want people to talk about sex with our children without telling us and behind our backs.” About …

How L.A. became the epicenter of hot labor summer
1 year, 4 months ago

How L.A. became the epicenter of hot labor summer

LA Times  

Writers and actors represented by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA unions picket in Hollywood. Each set of workers — screenwriters, actors, hotel employees, city staffers and more — is fighting its own particular fight, but organized labor is having a moment on the streets of L.A. “There’s a perception that we have little in common, but we’re both fighting for our …

Column: This ‘hot labor summer’ is unifying Los Angeles in a way few could have imagined
1 year, 4 months ago

Column: This ‘hot labor summer’ is unifying Los Angeles in a way few could have imagined

LA Times  

Thousands of city workers walked a picket line in front of Los Angeles City Hall on Aug. 8, 2023, for a scheduled 24-hour work stoppage prompted by what their union believes is a lack of good-faith labor negotiations. L.A. is a union town!” Members of Service Employees International Union Local 721, which represents more than 7,000 city workers, went on …

Editorial: Phew! Another LAUSD strike averted
1 year, 8 months ago

Editorial: Phew! Another LAUSD strike averted

LA Times  

It’s a good thing that Los Angeles Unified officials and the teachers union have agreed upon a tentative labor agreement — just in time to avoid a second strike shutting down schools in 2023. The United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents about 35,000 teachers, called the agreement “groundbreaking” because contract terms go beyond pay to address issues such as climate …

Los Angeles school strike ends, but no deal announced
1 year, 9 months ago

Los Angeles school strike ends, but no deal announced

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — A three-day strike by workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District ended Thursday, but it wasn’t immediately clear if any progress was made in negotiations for higher pay for teachers’ aides, bus drivers, custodians and other support staff in the nation’s second-largest school system. Carvalho has called the school district’s offer “historic.” It includes a cumulative …

Teacher's Day Out: Why Los Angeles school staff are on strike
1 year, 9 months ago

Teacher's Day Out: Why Los Angeles school staff are on strike

Firstpost  

It’s Day 3 of thousands of teachers and other school staff striking in Los Angeles, impacting more than 500,000 students. Thousands of service workers backed by teachers began a three-day strike against the Los Angeles Unified School District on Tuesday, shutting down education for a half-million students in the nation’s second-largest school system, according to Associated Press. Teachers joined rain-soaked …

LAUSD strike ends with classes to resume Friday but no settlement for low-wage workers
1 year, 9 months ago

LAUSD strike ends with classes to resume Friday but no settlement for low-wage workers

LA Times  

With downtown Los Angeles as their backdrop, members of Service Employees International Union Local 99 protest at Los Angeles State Historic Park on Thursday. A sweeping three-day strike that shut down Los Angeles public schools — led by support staff and backed by teachers — ended Thursday, clearing the way for students to return to class, but the unsettled labor …

Three-day LAUSD strike means three days without pay. How are low-paid workers coping?
1 year, 9 months ago

Three-day LAUSD strike means three days without pay. How are low-paid workers coping?

LA Times  

LAUSD employees rally on the first day of the three-day strike in front of LAUSD headquarters Tuesday. “Imagine struggling to provide — period.” She said it’s been hard for her to support her family as the sole income earner, especially with low wages and rising inflation. “She said ‘I want the school to feel your absence,’” Marchany said. “Guys who …

Los Angeles schools shut down as staff strike for better pay
1 year, 9 months ago

Los Angeles schools shut down as staff strike for better pay

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of service workers backed by teachers began a three-day strike against the Los Angeles Unified School District on Tuesday, shutting down education for a half-million students in the nation’s second-largest school system. Teachers joined rain-soaked picket lines early Tuesday as workers demanded better wages and increased staffing before heading to a huge rally outside the district’s …

Mayor Bass mediating ongoing LAUSD strike; schools to remain closed Thursday
1 year, 9 months ago

Mayor Bass mediating ongoing LAUSD strike; schools to remain closed Thursday

LA Times  

Yadira Martinez, 53, left, who works for LAUSD as special education assistant, joins the LAUSD strike at picket line near Florence Ave Elementary School in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Los Angeles public schools will remain closed Thursday, the last of a three-day strike, as Mayor Karen Bass stepped in Wednesday to join talks with union and school district leaders to …

Column: He helped LAUSD’s most ‘invisible’ workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn’t done
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: He helped LAUSD’s most ‘invisible’ workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn’t done

LA Times  

Max Arias, executive director of SEIU Local 99, talks at the union’s offices in Koreatown. “I’m inspired by them,” said Arias, the executive director of Service Employees International Union Local 99. “Max has made us believe in ourselves — and has made others believe in us, too.” The day before the strike began, I met Arias at Local 99’s headquarters …

Why LAUSD workers’ historic joint strike is ‘decades in the making’
1 year, 9 months ago

Why LAUSD workers’ historic joint strike is ‘decades in the making’

LA Times  

Los Angeles Unified workers rally on Day 1 of a three-day strike in front of district headquarters on Tuesday. But over the next century, while unions through the Rust Belt saw dwindling influence, L.A.’s union members “actually figured out how to organize immigrant workers organize whole communities,” she explained. Back then, L.A. was viewed as “a hub of low-wage work” …

LA schools shut down as staff begin three-day strike with backing from teachers
1 year, 9 months ago

LA schools shut down as staff begin three-day strike with backing from teachers

The Independent  

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Massive strike shutters LAUSD as a sea of workers seeking higher wages rallies downtown
1 year, 9 months ago

Massive strike shutters LAUSD as a sea of workers seeking higher wages rallies downtown

LA Times  

The start of a massive three-day strike led by the lowest paid public school workers and supported by teachers shut down Los Angeles campuses Tuesday amid a fierce morning storm, sent parents scrambling for child care and meals and brought thousands of picketers to campuses and a boisterous afternoon rally downtown. Max Arias, executive director of Local 99, said the …

LAUSD strike has parents scrambling for day-care sites
1 year, 9 months ago

LAUSD strike has parents scrambling for day-care sites

LA Times  

LAUSD employees and students strike in the rain in front of Farmdale Elementary School in El Sereno on Tuesday. California Photos: Three-day strike shuts down LAUSD, halting class for 420,000 students The nation’s second-largest school district ground to a halt Tuesday as 30,000 service employees — joined in sympathy by about 30,000 teachers — walked off the job to begin …

Last-minute talks fail, massive LAUSD strike and school shutdowns set for Tuesday
1 year, 9 months ago

Last-minute talks fail, massive LAUSD strike and school shutdowns set for Tuesday

LA Times  

United Teachers of Los Angeles and Service Employees Union International Local 99 members held a joint rally at Grand Park last week in a show of solidarity. Leer en español There had been hope of averting the walkout based on informal conversations over the weekend and the resumption Monday afternoon of mediation between the school district and the union that …

Hopes fading that last-minute talks will avert massive LAUSD strike Tuesday
1 year, 9 months ago

Hopes fading that last-minute talks will avert massive LAUSD strike Tuesday

LA Times  

Local 99 Executive Director Max Arias cheers on passing buses, driven by union members he represents, in this file photo. Hopes are fading that last-minute talks will prevent a scheduled three-day strike that would shut down classes for more than 420,000 students, beginning Tuesday morning in the Los Angeles Unified School District. “During the strike vote and contract bargaining process, …

What? A strike? Parents blindsided by looming LAUSD walkout that is closing schools
1 year, 9 months ago

What? A strike? Parents blindsided by looming LAUSD walkout that is closing schools

LA Times  

Jessica Aguilera, a parent at 153rd Street Elementary School, said she is supportive of the teachers, who are planning a three-day strike. Like most parents in the nation’s second-largest school district, Marianne Webster was shocked to learn of the massive strike set to shutter public schools across Los Angeles for three days next week. “When I picked him up he …

They feed children who can’t hold a fork. But these LAUSD workers will strike
1 year, 9 months ago

They feed children who can’t hold a fork. But these LAUSD workers will strike

LA Times  

Thousands gathered in Grand Park on Wednesday as United Teachers Los Angeles and SEIU Local 99 members held a joint rally to press for contract demands. “It’s not fair.” Kyle Sanchez, 35, works at Rosa Parks Learning Center in North Hills with 18 special education students in a fourth-and-fifth-grade split classroom. Francisco Magallanes, a 23-year special education assistant at Cudahy’s …

LAUSD files last-ditch legal challenge to stop looming strike and school closures
1 year, 9 months ago

LAUSD files last-ditch legal challenge to stop looming strike and school closures

LA Times  

United Teachers of Los Angeles and SEIU 99 members held a joint rally at downtown’s Grand Park on Wednesday in a show of solidarity as both unions prepare to strike for three days next week. Los Angeles Unified officials are mounting a last-ditch legal challenge to stall or prevent a three-day strike that would shut down classrooms across the nation’s …

L.A. Unified strike closes schools. What are parents’ child-care options?
1 year, 9 months ago

L.A. Unified strike closes schools. What are parents’ child-care options?

LA Times  

The city of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Unified School District and other groups over the weekend announced reinforcements for parents who need child-care options during a three-day strike that will close many district campuses for regular instruction starting Tuesday. Leer en español The city’s Department of Parks and Recreation will open parks for free programming for first- through fifth-grade …

How LAUSD is scrambling to prepare for a three-day strike affecting 420,000 children
1 year, 9 months ago

How LAUSD is scrambling to prepare for a three-day strike affecting 420,000 children

LA Times  

United Teachers of Los Angeles and SEIU 99 members held a joint rally at Grand Park on March 15, announcing a three day strike. Leer en español “We’re trying to see if we can minimize the consequences of a three-day strike on people for whom schools provide food and child care in addition to education,” school board President Jackie Goldberg …

Thousands of LA school district workers to hold 3-day strike
1 year, 9 months ago

Thousands of LA school district workers to hold 3-day strike

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District will strike for three days next week over stalled contract talks and teachers will join them, likely shutting down the nation’s second-largest school system, union leaders announced Wednesday. It was announced at a rally by the Service Employees International Union, which represents about 30,000 teachers’ …

Strike set at LAUSD schools: What parents and students need to know
1 year, 9 months ago

Strike set at LAUSD schools: What parents and students need to know

LA Times  

United Teachers of Los Angeles and SEIU 99 members hold a joint rally at Grand Park in a historic show of solidarity. The anticipated walkout would be the longest full disruption of education in the nation’s second-largest school system since the six-day teachers’ strike of 2019 and upend a school system trying to recover from the pandemic. Local 99 leaders …

LAUSD says it can meet ‘24/7’ with union to avoid three-day strike and school shutdowns
1 year, 9 months ago

LAUSD says it can meet ‘24/7’ with union to avoid three-day strike and school shutdowns

LA Times  

UTLA members and community leaders rally in front of LAUSD headquarters in December. Alberto Carvalho said Wednesday morning that he and district negotiators are prepared to meet around the clock to avert a planned three-day strike by unions representing teachers and campus support staff. The strike would shut down schools attended by more than 420,000 students, “I have 2, 3, …

Los Angeles teachers, other workers plan three-day strike as labor woes explode
1 year, 9 months ago

Los Angeles teachers, other workers plan three-day strike as labor woes explode

LA Times  

The Los Angeles teachers union plans to join an anticipated three-day strike — possibly within two weeks — with thousands of L.A. Unified’s non-teaching workers, actions that would likely shut down schools amid an explosion of labor discontent. Alberto Carvalho saying it was terminating its contract with the district, a legal maneuver that would allow its members to join Local …

LAUSD bus drivers, food workers, teacher aides give union OK to call strike if talks fail
1 year, 10 months ago

LAUSD bus drivers, food workers, teacher aides give union OK to call strike if talks fail

LA Times  

Princess Benson, center, a healthcare specialist with Los Angeles Unified, takes part in a December demonstration outside school district headquarters with other members of SEIU Local 99. The 30,000 workers represented by Local 99 of Service Employees International Union include bus drivers, campus security aides and gardeners — all essential to operations in the nation’s second-largest school system. “Furthermore, throughout …

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