LA Teachers

New horizons are being reached in this late march; LA is bustling with social movement mobilizations. About 30,000 school staff and teachers with the Service Employees international Union Local 99 held a three-day-strike last week. LA movement organizations and labor unions came out in a show of solidarity for the teachers. The mobilization was performed to leverage LAUSD to compel to the worker’s demand for a 30% raise increase, and increases to minimum wage and work hours, along with guaranteed bonuses, retroactive pay, and standardizing the average salary from 25,000 to 33,000.

Just a few days have passed, and they won all their demands. In desperate times no less, when it has been reported “SEIU 99 education workers make on average USD 25,000 per year, compared to LAUS 5 billion in reserves, one in three SEIU 99 workers reports being either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.”

These are poverty wages when we contextualize the expenses of living in just the average one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles is over 2,800 per month. Even the SEIU workers reported they do

Workers are now set to vote on the tentative agreement next week, with results announced Saturday, April 8.