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With hours to go before a potential strike by 80,000 Los Angeles school workers, negotiations between SEIU Local 99 and the Los Angeles Unified School District are continuing under intense pressure from city and political officials, including Mayor Karen Bass, who is reportedly directly involved in talks tonight.
The moves by UTLA and the administrators union are aimed at blocking unified strike action with 30,000 school support staff in SEIU Local 99.
Kennedy Orwa, a PhD student at the University of Washington, was detained at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on April 7 and deported with his 13-year-old son the following day.
Librarian instructed to remove up to 200 books from school library deemed inappropriate by school with Christian ethos
By calling off its work bans the AEU is signalling its willingness to force the state government’s offer through, further cutting real wages and doing nothing to address staff shortages and intolerable workloads.
“The same economic pressures that lead to dangerous line speeds, inadequate safety protections, and a lack of proper PPE and equipment in the past are mirrored in our own workplaces through chronic understaffing and cuts to essential services.”
The WSWS continues to receive statements of support from workers across Canada for Will Lehman’s campaign for the presidency of the UAW in the United States. Lehman is running as a socialist on a program to abolish the union bureaucracy and place power back in the hands of workers on the shop floor.
The meeting called on educators, students and workers to move similar resolutions denouncing the US-Israeli assault on Iran and the Albanese Labor government’s participation in it.
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