Unions Ask School District to Reject Plan for Pay Cuts
A coalition of unions representing Los Angeles Unified School District employees on Monday asked the district to cut deeper into its administrative budget rather than require employees to accept cuts in pay and benefits.
Faced with declining state funding, the school board last month voted to negotiate $50 million in compensation cuts with employee unions as part of a $241-million package of cuts to the district’s $4-billion budget.
But officials from unions representing 70,000 teachers, clerks, classroom aides, custodians, plumbers, carpenters and others say the district can save that much by eliminating 600 management positions, renegotiating vendor contracts and stop providing administrators with district-owned autos.
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