Los Angeles students everywhere are deeply saddened.
Posted on 03/16/2023 8:17:41 PM PDT by lightman
Union leaders in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced they will strike for three days next week, canceling classes for about 430,000 students in the nation’s second-largest school district.
SEIU Local 99—the union representing 30,000 cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants, and other non-teaching staff at LAUSD—announced the strike at a rally in downtown Los Angeles March 15.
At the rally, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA)—the union which represents LAUSD’s 35,000 teachers—announced they would strike as well in support.
According to organizers, the strike will begin March 21.
SEIU Local 99’s executive director, Max Arias, acknowledged in a March 15 statement that the strike will be a “sacrifice,” but said the district pushed them to do so.
“Families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages,” Arias said. “Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all. Too many workers have been subjected to harassment simply for demanding change. Enough is Enough!”
The union, which has been negotiating a new contract for its members with the district since April 2022, said the strike was necessary because it had reached an impasse with LAUSD.
Its proposal requests “good wage increases”—though it does not specify amounts—with increases at the 10th year and includes a so-called “Me Too” clause—meaning if any other LAUSD bargaining unit receives a wage increase, the union would receive one as well.
Other benefits the union is seeking are full-time hours, pay for mandatory training and certifications required for work, no split shifts, and substitute relief for absent coworkers.
It also requests the district notify and bargain with the union before changing schedules and hours.
In a March 14 statement, LAUSD said it offered union members a 5 percent wage increase for 2022–23 and a one-time 4 percent bonus. For the following year, the district offered the same pay increase, and a five percent one-time bonus.
Additionally, it offered “market-driven pay increases” to the annual salaries of some staff—$20,000 for nurses, $3,000 for school psychologists, $2,500 for special education teachers, and $1,000 for early education teachers in addition to the wage increases.
Despite this, “SEIU is simply refusing to negotiate,” LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in a March 15 statement.
“With a historic offer on the table that was created in direct response to SEIU’s demands, and with additional resources still to be negotiated, it is deeply surprising and disappointing there is an unwillingness to do so,” he said.
In the statement, Carvalho called on union leaders to “come to the table” to reach a deal before the strike disrupts school for the district’s students.
One of the main reasons that UNIONS suck.
Three less days of indoctrination and or physical danger to the children in LA schools.
Kids will be moderately safe for 3 days.
The problem is actually not with the unions (as bad as they are). The problem is with the state laws that make it difficult - if not impossible - to fire striking workers.
Let’s say that you and I are both lathe operators. We decide to go to the boss together, and demand a raise (that’s a union move). And we tell the boss that if he doesn’t agree, we will both go on strike. There is nothing at all wrong with that! It’s a free country.
Well, since it’s a free country, the boss should be able to fire us and then bring in permanent replacements. But in many states that would be illegal. So it’s not a level playing field. The workers hold too many cards.
Didn’t they just get a 2 year paid covid vacation?
Cool! Maybe the kids will learn something in their days off from the Leninist Gulags.
> Didn’t they just get a 2 year paid covid vacation? <
If so, that’s the fault of the idiots on the school board. It’s a human inclination to take whatever good things are handed to you. If you are offered a 2 year vacation, you take a 2 year vacation.
This whole thing depresses me. I suppose that at one time management set standards. And it didn’t matter if it was a government entity or a private entity. Meet the standards, or out you go. Now there are no standards. Everything possible seems to be okay.
Los Angeles students everywhere are deeply saddened.
Yay! Three fewer days for innocent children to be indoctrinated by these pagan “educators”.
Those who can, do
Those who cannot, teach
Those who cannot teach, teach the teachers
Those cannot teach the teachers. become the deans.
What those teachers learned from their 60s-80s demonstrations and can now use and show by example to young students in 2023:
We shall, we shall not be moved.
Woke up this mornin’ with my mind set on freedom.
I ain’t afraid of your jails ‘cause I want my freedom, I
want my freedom now.
We shall overcome someday.
This song Union Maid was written in the office of the Oklahoma City Communist Party——
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/union-maid-song
The teachers fail to teach reading and writing and arithmetic and history yet want a big pay increase.
Photo of concerned modern day students....
No need for phony flu excuse
no need for a bomb threat at school
or a Covid stay at home alert.
The teachers have gone on strike and I’m off to
smoke some dope, chase some partners and live my life.
The new Arkansas law allowing parents 90% of publc school expenditures for private or home schooling goes a long way towards solving the their problems with education.
SEIU kills many businesses profitability. They helped destroy my employer. Even many, many union members at the institution hated them cause they promised but did not deliver. Eventually all those union members lost their jobs, and many lost a substantial percentages of their pensions after the pension fund went underfunded. When institute went bankrupt the pensions were taken over by the feds at a lower rate.
Clearly...time for private homeschooling and/or hybrid home/educational center models.
3 days, maybe they kids can learn something now
The solution is simple, but I doubt the teachers’ union will play along.
Declare all learning will be remote as long as the strike continues. There would be no need for the SEIU janitors, cafeteria folk, bus drivers or adminstrative support staff.
We know this can be done. It was shoved down our throats two years ago.
EC
Unintended (?) consequences before and now, if enacted: More dumbing down, more social isolation, more mental health issues.
One time around was one time too many.
They get the full package if 95%+ pass reading and math at grade. They get considerably less, depending on how bad the test scores are.
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