The price of Los Angeles school district union peace will be $1.2 billion a year. Next up is paying for it

Last-minute tentative agreements avert big L.A. school strike

LOS ANGELES—Last-minute tentative agreements, reached at 3 a.m. on April 13—two days before a scheduled strike was to start—averted the walkout by the three unions representing 37,000 teachers and support staffers of the Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD), one of the largest districts in the U.S. One key to the agreements, covering the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), a Teachers/AFT local, Teamsters Local 2010, and Service Employee…

Hot Union Spring at LAUSD

Coordinated bargaining — echoing Hollywood labor fights — helped thousands of workers settle contracts. The post Hot Union Spring at LAUSD appeared first on .

LAUSD, unions reach tentative deal to avert strike - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

Wave Wire Services LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District reached a tentative agreement with the union representing 30,000 essential school workers, averting a planned strike April 14 that would have shut down campuses in the nation’s second-largest public school system. Hours after the agreement was reached, LAUSD officials and labor representatives held a joint news conference alongside Mayor Karen Bass at City Hall to discuss t…

POLITICS: Why LAUSD can’t afford $1.2 billion in raises

The Los Angeles Unified School District narrowly avoided a strike that could have shuttered schools for nearly 400,000 students. That is the good news.  The bad news is that the price of avoiding that disruption appears to be labor deals costing the district nearly $1.2 billion annually. According to news reports, the final tentative agreement, reached with SEIU Local 99 in the early morning hours, includes: A 24 percent pay increase over three …

Mammoth sum taxpayers will fork out after LAUSD caved on deal with unions

Los Angeles taxpayers are about to be on the hook for the massive pay out that LAUSD has agreed to pay workers of three different unions after it averted an 11th hour strike.

The price of Los Angeles school district union peace will be $1.2 billion a year. Next up is paying for it

LOS ANGELES — Three Los Angeles school district unions won major victories with deals that bring hefty raises and prompted celebratory messages about a new chapter in local education progress. But the price of union peace will be nearly $1.2…