Opinion: LAUSD’s unions could support policies to help all Californians
L.A. Unified’s employee unions are prepping the public for another schools closure, their third in about four years. Union leaders will say it’s for the kids. In this case as in the others, it’s the kids and their families who will be hurt.
“Our kids didn’t lose anything,” she told Los Angeles Magazine in an interview so extraordinary it went global. “It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.”
According to the SEIU, the average annual salary for the 30,000 LAUSD service workers they represent is $25,000. But that includes all service workers, from part-time to full-time. About 75% of the members work fewer than eight hours per day, and with school in session only 180 days, or 36 weeks per year, even many of the workers with “full-time hours” are off for up to 16 weeks per year.
Whether there’s enough cash today to grant the LAUSD’s service workers the 30% wage increase they’re demanding, the long-term financial outlook of the district remains troubled, thanks in no small part to the teachers union’s practice of financing the campaigns of school board candidates who, once in office, return the favor with higher pay and benefits.
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