Los Angeles Unified School District Strikes Deal with Unions to Prevent School Shutdown
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) recently reached agreements with its teachers' and administrators' unions to prevent a strike that would have affected approximately 400,000 students. The district agreed to a nearly 14 percent raise for teachers and a 12 percent raise for administrators over two years. However, the support staff union had not initially reached an agreement, threatening to strike if their demands were not met. These demands included more work hours, fewer nonunion subcontractors, and the rescinding of a previous layoff of tech workers. Mayor Karen Bass intervened, resulting in the support staff union receiving a 24 percent raise over three years. The negotiations were seen as coercive, with unions leveraging their position to secure costly demands from the district. 
