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The LAUSD School Board Fails To Prevent A Strike

Parents and teachers join SEIU Local 99 in the rain to protest a lack of respect for the essential workers who keep the District running.

“If LAUSD is truly serious about negotiating, they must begin by addressing and recognizing the blatant harassment of workers who are exercising their legal right to demand improvements to their wages and work hours, and increased staffing for the student services they provide.”

– SEIU Local 99

The workers belonging to SEIU Local 99 have been working without a contract since 2020. As the union has tried to negotiate with the LAUSD, it alleges that the District has illegally subjected its members “to threats, harassment, surveillance, and interrogation about their participation in union activities.” To protest this behavior, SEIU Local 99 announced last week that it intended to hold a three-day strike to protest a lack of “respect for essential workers who have been treated as a second-class workforce by LAUSD for far too long.”

Knowing that the teacher’s union, UTLA, would honor the picket lines by the District’s cafeteria workers, janitors, bus drivers, and special education assistants, Superintendent Carvalho knew that the announced work stoppage…