Hundreds of Los Angeles labor unions say they’re prepared to walk off the job to support a two-year contract that includes a 17% pay raise for members of United Teachers Los Angeles.
UTLA and SEIU Local 99 are set to go on strike on April 14 against the Los Angeles Unified School District.
“If we are gonna win what is right and just for the workers of L.A. Unified and for the students of the schools, we need to all stand together in solidarity,” UTLA Vice President Julie Van Winkle said. “It has to be the entire city of L.A. because our fight is a fight for working people to be able to continue to afford to live in L.A.”
Yvonne Wheeler, the president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, said this could be a strike that would include hundreds of thousands of workers from affiliated labor unions.
“UTLA and SEIU Local 99 members made one thing clear: enough is enough,” she said. “They're done with being undervalued, under-resourced, and unheard. This is a unified movement demanding respect and a fair contract.”
Some of the demands by UTLA include an average salary increase of 17% over two years, a new wage scale of $80,000, and decreasing class sizes for 11th and 12th-grade academic classes.
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