Teaching Assistants Win Union Representation
About 10,000 teaching assistants, 70% of whom are bilingual Latinas, won their bid for union representation on Monday when the Los Angeles Board of Education agreed to let them organize.
The teaching assistants, who work three to six hours a day, five days a week, earn less money than a similar group, teaching aides. They also do not receive any benefits, such as sick pay, vacation or medical coverage.
The board voted to let the assistants be represented by a new section, Unit F, of Los Angeles City and County School Employees, Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union, the union that represents teaching aides.
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