LAUSD schools reopen after 3-day strike ends with no contract settlement for service workers

[SouthBayDem]

Source: ABC7 KABC Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Sudents in the L.A. Unified School District will return to classes Friday following a three-day strike by service workers that shuttered the nation's second-largest school system and culminated in a massive labor rally at Los Angeles State Historic Park.

No new contract came out of the three-day walkout by members of the Service Employees International Union Local 99 -- nor was there any word on whether progress was being made in the contract dispute between the union and the district.

Mayor Karen Bass has been facilitating discussions between the sides, but it remained unclear if the talks were materializing into actual contract negotiations.

Nevertheless, it will be back to school on Friday, as the union confirmed Wednesday night it would hold to its three-day strike strategy.

Read more: https://abc7.com/lausd-strike-reopen-schools/13003708/

[OneCrazyDiamond]

1. The union said workers' average salary is $25,000.

Try surviving in California on 25K.

$12.6 billion for the 2022–2023 school year.

The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board approved his (the superintendent) 2022-26 contract with an annual salary of $440,000, a $50,000 relocation allowance, an automobile and its related expenses, a driver, and security.

[MichMan]

2. That's all they get paid, even with union representation?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

3. It's the average, but yeah.

Borders indentured servitude at LA's cost of living.

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. There's always money for administrators who are valuable, necessary, and needed because without them

schools would die.

Districts will always scream poverty when it comes to teachers and classified staff, because those people are irrelevant to a school system and are a dime a dozen and easily replaceable anyway.

Superintendent probably also has a guaranteed contract with a buyout clause, travel allowances and reimbursements (for personal travel) and subsidized housing.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

5. It's for the children.