There is no right to strike against public schools
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.
