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Less than two months after the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) forced a concessionary contract on 35,000 educators and three months after a similarly rotten deal was reached with 30,000 school support staff represented by SEIU Local 99, the Los Angeles Unified School District is pressing ahead with even more cuts.
The UTLA bureaucracy calls the agreement a “historic victory,” but it falls far short of what teachers are demanding, particularly on teacher pay and staffing ratios.
The short, self-serving “highlights” already made clear the deal is a sellout that provides no real improvements in either teacher compensation or school conditions. The release of the full details of the agreement this past Tuesday only further confirms this.
With the contract vote scheduled for next week, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) has launched a massive campaign to censor even the most modest criticism of the tentative agreement.