{"id":63104,"date":"2026-04-14T09:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/lausd-strike-ends-schools-to-open-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:25:52","slug":"lausd-strike-ends-schools-to-open-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/lausd-strike-ends-schools-to-open-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"LAUSD strike ends, schools to open Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Los Angeles Unified School District strike has been called off after LAUSD reached a tentative agreement with Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union Tuesday morning. Schools will remain open like normal days on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The temporary agreement was the third and final milestone needed to prevent walkouts and school closings in the nation’s second-largest school district. <\/p>\n

On Sunday, United Teachers Los Angeles and the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles both reached tentative agreements with the school district. Their deals still need to be approved by union members. The Board of Education also must ratify temporary agreements. <\/p>\n

Local 99 represents approximately 30,000 teacher aides, campus aides, gardeners, custodians, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and technical support staff. These union members are the lowest paid in the school system. Their average annual salary is about $35,000 \u2013 although the jobs typically include health benefits for union members and their immediate family.<\/p>\n

A deal was announced by the school district shortly after 2 a.m. <\/p>\n

The bargaining teams of Local 99 and LA Unified also held lengthy one-on-one meetings Thursday and Sunday. According to a source close to the talks, Sunday’s mediation session lasted from around 10 am to around 9.30 pm. <\/p>\n

For its part, the Board of Education meets behind closed doors on Fridays and also on Mondays, starting at 10 am. Such meetings are generally used to update the Board and receive further instructions if necessary. Monday’s meeting adjourned just under three hours in \u2013 board members used up less than four hours of their scheduled time.<\/p>\n

Local 99 members are working under contract terms that expire June 30, 2024.<\/p>\n

The union was demanding stable work schedules because some members’ work hours had been reduced due to budget cuts. In some cases, employees fell below the required hours limit to qualify for health benefits.<\/p>\n

Among district employees, Local 99 members are generally the least able to withstand a strike \u2013 during which they will not be paid.<\/p>\n

Details on two other deals<\/h2>\n

The three unions, each with separate contracts, cover about 70,000 of the district’s 83,300 employees and nearly all campus workers. For the first time at LA Unified, all three joined together and each vowed to walk out if an agreement was not reached with the union.<\/p>\n

UTLA represents approximately 37,000 teachers, nurses, counselors, psychologists and librarians.<\/p>\n

AALA represents approximately 3,000 employees in the two units. A unit consists of members with teaching qualifications such as principals and assistant principals. A separate unit consists of middle managers who do not have teaching qualifications.<\/p>\n

Other unions \u2013 including those representing school clerical workers, plant and cafeteria managers, building trades workers and school police \u2013 had already finalized their contracts. <\/p>\n

The administrators’ deal includes a pay increase of 11.65% over two years and the opportunity to bargain for additional pay increases in the third year of the three-year contract. <\/p>\n

It was also important for administrators to find an agreement to place limits on the potentially unlimited, uncompensated work expectations associated with the job of principal and assistant principal. According to the union, the district has agreed to a framework for a 40-hour week with flex time off for additional hours. It is not clear whether all the details of this provision have been ironed out. <\/p>\n

UTLA said the average pay increase for its members over the two-year agreement is 13.86%. <\/p>\n

In its proposal, UTLA wants a massive increase in the automatic “step and column” raises teachers already receive based on years of experience and additional education credits. The union said on Sunday that important targets have been achieved in this area. <\/p>\n

The union also demanded an increase in the annual salary of beginning teachers. Under the agreement, that salary will increase immediately from $68,965 to $77,000, an 11.7% increase. <\/p>\n

UTLA has said the increases are needed to cushion the impact of inflation in an already high-cost sector. If the increase results in better teacher retention, the district and students will benefit as well \u2013 provided the increase is affordable.<\/p>\n

Other UTLA provisions include adding more than 450 attendance counselors, psychiatric social workers, school psychologists and counselor positions and better controlling class sizes for students with disabilities \u2013 including extra pay for teachers whose classes exceed the maximum number. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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