BREAKING: Tentative deal is reached between union workers and LAUSD following a three day strike.
The union that represents school support staff in the Los Angeles Unified has reached a tentative agreement with the school district to increase salaries by 30% and provide health care to more members.by bus drivers, cafeteria workers, classroom assistants and other Service Employees International Local 99 members that shut down district schools. The teachers' union, United Teachers Los Angeles, stayed out classrooms in solidarity with the SEIU staff.
L.A. Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and SEIU Local 99 Executive Director Max Arias announced the agreement Friday evening at Los Angeles City Hall.Support for LAist comes from"I want to thank SEIU Local 99 Executive Director Max Arias and Superintendent Alberto Carvalho for working together with me to put our families first," Bass said in a statement released on Friday night.
Arias noted the union’s 30,000 members, who make between $17 and $23 per hour, sacrificed pay to strike against alleged harassment during their contract negotiations. “We cannot continue to rely on people, on the workforce that is basically living in poverty and has to work three jobs to do this work of educating our children,” Arias said.
Union members have to vote on the deal before it’s finalized. There’s a virtual membership meeting scheduled for Monday, March 27.
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