{"id":22378,"date":"2018-12-23T00:06:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T08:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=22378"},"modified":"2018-12-23T02:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T10:46:04","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-hue-and-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-hue-and-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Hue and Cry!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

LAUSD Teachers Have Set A Date To Go On Strike<\/h1>\n

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For more than a year, parents of the 480,000 students in the Los Angeles Unified School District have anxiously watched a low-simmering contract dispute with the district’s teachers union<\/a>, wondering when the feud might boil over.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, parents got their answer.<\/p>\n

Teachers union leaders announced they will call a strike on Jan. 10 if they haven’t reached a contract agreement with LAUSD by then. It would be the first work stoppage called by United Teachers Los Angeles since the union’s nine-day strike in 1989.<\/p>\n

At a press conference, UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl said union negotiators would not return to the bargaining table until the district takes “a different approach to having discussions.”<\/p>\n

“We’re not going to go through another 20 months of unfair bargaining practices on the part of the district,” Caputo-Pearl said. “We have several core issues they’ve literally never responded to \u2014 around early education, regulation of charter [schools], limiting standardized tests.”<\/p>\n

“The district knows where we are,” Caputo-Pearl added. “We’re right down the street from each other.”<\/p>\n

The announcement comes one day after a neutral third party \u2014 known as a fact-finder \u2014 unveiled recommendations for settling the dispute.<\/p>\n

But neither UTLA nor LAUSD is bound to accept the fact-finder’s suggestions. With the release of the fact-finder’s report, there’s nothing to legally stop UTLA from striking.\u00a0 laist.com\/2018\/12\/19\/lausd_teachers_set_a_strike_date.php<\/a><\/p>\n