LAUSD reaches historic deal, meets demands of union workers following 3-day strike

[SunSeeker]

Source: KTLA.com

The “historic” deal includes a 30% pay increase that Local 99 of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) had been seeking along with a vast expansion of benefits including:

-$2 per hour increase for all employees effective January 1, 2024
-6% ongoing wage increase retroactive to July 1, 2021
-7% ongoing wage increase retroactive to July 1, 2022
-7% ongoing wage increase effective July 1, 2023
-Members working at least part-time (four days or more) or more will receive fully paid healthcare benefits along with their dependents.
-$1,000 bonus for current employees with the district from 2020-21 “during adverse circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
-Raise the minimum wage to $22.52 an hour
-Increase hours and compensation for paraprofessionals serving students with special needs
-Invest $3 million in an Education and Professional Development Fund for SEIU members
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The tentative agreement will be moved to union members to vote for its approval. If approved, the deal could prevent schools from being shuttered again as members were not opposed to another strike if negotiations failed to pan out.

“This week, the eyes of our entire nation were on the cooks, custodians and classroom aides who make education possible in Los Angeles, a workforce overwhelmingly made up of women and people of color,” said Max Arias, Executive Director of SEIU Local 99. “We emerged stronger than ever from this week’s strike and showed the entire nation that unions are the most powerful force for economic opportunity and equity. Members’ sacrifice, courage, and strength – and the solidarity of 35,000 teachers of UTLA – led to this moment.”



Read more: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lausd-negotiations-continue-as-3-day-strike-ends-no-deal-reached/

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A huge win for LA school workers, and for LA Mayor Karen Bass, who worked very hard to produce a deal.

[Magoo48]

1. Union Strong

Solidarity with teachers.

[eggplant]

2. I don't believe this was a teacher's strike.

[SunSeeker]

3. Correct, but the teachers' union supported the strike. Solidarity works!

[eggplant]

4. Agreed.

[mountain grammy]

5. Good news and good for Mayor Bass

I sure wish her well.

[flying_wahini]

6. Add nurses to the list too.

[IbogaProject]

7. SEIU was the union MLK went to in NYC

He got stabbed and went to the SEIU office rather than a hospital as it's nursing union among other service fields.

https://www.seiu.org/blog/2015/7/when-martin-luther-king-jr-to-seiu-1199#:~:text=called%20it%20%22his%20favorite%20union,to%20eliminate%20poverty%20and%20injustice.%22

SEIU 1199 Healthcare Workers East has an especially a proud history of civil rights activism--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called it "his favorite union" and he considered himself "a fellow 1199-er." King suggested to 1199 "that if all of labor would emulate what you have been doing over the years, our nation would be closer to victory in the fight to eliminate poverty and injustice."

Actually it was MLK wanted to go to the SEIU 1199 office as they represented and had many nurses. He was sent to nearby Harlem Hospital and was successfully saved. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/curry-izola-ware#:~:text=On%2020%20September%201958%2C%20Izola,Store%20in%20Harlem%2C%20New%20York.

[SunSeeker]

8. Thanks for that. I never knew about that stabbing.

Glad he had them to turn to!