But the support staff union’s concerns weren’t about education at all. Its negotiators wanted the district to give them more work hours, hire fewer nonunion subcontractors and rescind a previous layoff of tech workers. This left families wondering whether their kids would be able to go to school as the district haggled over labor contract minutiae for non-teachers late into the night.
Mayor Karen Bass (D) intervened to ensure a strike wouldn’t occur, but her contribution wasn’t so much a negotiation as a surrender. The support staff union got what it wanted, which includes a 24 percent raise over three years.
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Related: Act 10.