About UsUnited Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) was created in 1970 from more than a dozen different organizations representing teachers and support service personnel throughout the massive Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
A merger of the two major rival groups, American Federation of Teachers Local #1021 and the Association of Classroom Teachers of Los Angeles in that year succeeded in bringing all non-administrative, certificated personnel under the one banner of UTLA and its affiliates, the California Teachers Association (CTA), the National Education Association (NEA), and the American Federal of Teachers, AFL-CIO.
The Los Angeles College Faculty Guild is the exclusive bargaining agent for full-time and adjunct faculty working in the nine community colleges within the Los Angeles Community College District.
The Guild has represented the district's faculty since the beginning of collective bargaining in California's community colleges in 1977, and is the largest local union of community college faculty in California.