SEIU Local 99 is seeking a 30% pay hike over time, more reliable hours for part-time workers and a crackdown on employee harassment.
If you ask the LAUSD workers who have staged a three-day strike this week for better pay, hours and working conditions, they’ll say “enough” is clearly more than they’re earning., which represents the 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District employees, wants to elevate their pay to a living wage. Union officials say they’ve been negotiating with the district for months with little progress.
In households with two adults and one working with no children the living wage is $32.46 an hour. That jumps to $40.74 with one child and $45.69 with two children. “The $24 an hour I earn is the cap … and I also have two kids,” the 39-year-old Sylmar resident said. “I’m paying $1,700 a month in rent, and I also spend about $400 a month on gas and groceries. Everything is going up, and that doesn’t count my car payment, insurance on the car and all of the other expenses I have.”“Before I was married, I was also waitressing to help pay the bills,” she said. “Many of the employees have to work two jobs to get by. I’d like to be working 40 hours a week.
CoreLogic said high home prices are edging many prospective buyers out of the market. In February, thefor a home in the six-county region was $690,000, and Los Angeles County’s median price was $765,000 — well out of reach for many prospective buyers. “Some of our bus drivers are homeless,” the 47-year-old Lancaster resident said. “They’re sleeping in their cars. We used to have cookouts at the yard where the buses park so those people could get some food, but the school district won’t let us do that anymore. That stopped five years ago.”
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