United Teachers of Los Angeles strike

[reyesking]

Union leaders keep telling us that we need several steps before we can get a strike. An impasse, then union vote for a strike, then arbitration by a judge. They are just making it sound like a slooooooowwww process. It almost feels like they want it to sound so slow that we won't even bother.

Right now, we are at the point of no return for the EDUCATION in Los Angeles with 12,000 layoffs scheduled for June.

We need to expedite the process so we have a strike ready to go before May 15 which is when Governor does his Budget Revision. With Teachers on strike before May 15th, Governor Brown will have to at least consider providing more money to our education system and save our teachers.

What is the legal process in order to strike?

 

[startedone]

If I was the governor I would support making teachers union illegal & then fire all of ya.

 

[CourtClerk]

LAUSD has a piss poor record of educating and graduating these children and the teachers have the nerve to want to strike and take MORE time away from the classroom. Yeah, that sounds productive.

Get your union together so you guys can be effective in the mission of EDUCATING these children... or go work for other districts. The UTLA is nothing but a bunch of bullies. They have been for decades.

 

[racer72]

What is the legal process in order to strike?

It's in your union bylaws and contract. But as long as the current contract is in force, you can't legally strike.

 

[garrula lingua]

LAUSD has a piss poor record of educating and graduating these children and the teachers have the nerve to want to strike and take MORE time away from the classroom. Yeah, that sounds productive.

Get your union together so you guys can be effective in the mission of EDUCATING these children... or go work for other districts. The UTLA is nothing but a bunch of bullies. They have been for decades.

Having a friend who was a Principal there, and several who are teachers, I couldn't agree with you more !
I'd like to start hacking at the Administrator's salaries, as well as the teachers.
When we contribute to charity, we can check to see how much of each dollar is actually going to the needy recipient.
I think we'd be shocked if we could trace how much of each tax dollar is actually going to education of the child.

Lol - so nice to hear from Court Clerk who tells it like it is ...

 

[TheGeekess]

Having a friend who was a Principal there, and several who are teachers, I couldn't agree with you more !
I'd like to start hacking at the Administrator's salaries, as well as the teachers.
When we contribute to charity, we can check to see how much of each dollar is actually going to the needy recipient.
I think we'd be shocked if we could trace how much of each tax dollar is actually going to education of the child.

Lol - so nice to hear from Court Clerk who tells it like it is ...

Little to none, I'm sure.

And living in a state where the teachers' union HAD a stranglehold on the legislature (and still managed to get the governor they wanted elected).... And where some lower level administrators in a local district make more than the police chief, plus the admin assistants have assistants.

No sympathy for teachers' unions. They don't protect OR benefit the student.

 

[tranquility]

The problem is not with the unions, but with the voters.

Until we have a day when candidates have to explain rather than tout an endorsement from a public employee union, we will never fix the problem(s).

Fun fact:
The purpose of a union is to make the pay, benefits and working conditions better for union members. While a case can be made that helps the people the members serve, helping the people the members serve is NOT the union's purpose.

 

[sandyclaus]

I think that if these teachers think they need to strike in order to earn what they're worth, FIRST they have to demonstrate that they are worth it.

The "No Child Left Behind" policy was a joke. My child got left behind, having not completed a single writing assignment in an entire year of English at the 8th grade level. His teachers pushed him through and fudged a C grade in order to qualify him for matriculation to the 9th grade that year. My child was severely ADHD, and creating and enforcing an efficient IEP to support him meant asking for things that the teachers refused to do - like keeping me up-to-date on unfinished homework assignments.

Most of the LAUSD teachers are lazy or feeling overwhelmed because the others before them didn't do their jobs. Rather than knuckle under and teach these children, they just push them through the system. And no wonder many of the kids give up and quit school - they haven't achieved even the most basic of skills because of their teacher's failures.

 

[swalsh411]

Is this the group that was having all those payroll issues a few years ago?

 

[justalayman]

If I was the governor I would support making teachers union illegal & then fire all of ya.

really? Sorry you don't enjoy your overtime over 40 hours or any safety law that makes a damn or minimum wage or....


I am sure I am speaking to a person that refuses to hear so why should I bother?

quote from Tranquility:

Fun fact:
The purpose of a union is to make the pay, benefits and working conditions better for union members. While a case can be made that helps the people the members serve, helping the people the members serve is NOT the union's purpose.

and...?

of course the purpose of the union is to benefit the members of the union. That is why we join unions.

I can see from the various posts that there a bunch of anti-union supporters. While there are problems with some unions, it is not the fact it is a union that is the problem but how it is run.