News & Commentary March 27, 2023

[Omaha Steve]

https://onlabor.org/march-27-2023/

By Morgan Sperry

Morgan Sperry is a student at Harvard Law School.

In today’s News and Commentary, striking Los Angeles school workers have reached a tentative deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District, law professors have filed an amicus brief to contest the use of arbitration in former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores’s employment discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, and the Senate HELP Committee gears up for Wednesday’s Howard Schultz testimony.

More than thirty thousand Los Angeles school workers reached a tentative agreement with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) over the weekend, ending a three-day strike that Peter reported on earlier this week. Service Employees International Union Local 99, which represented the bus drivers, custodians, and cafeteria workers on strike, stated that the agreement “addresses our key demands and sets us on a clear pathway to improving our livelihoods and securing the staffing we need to improve student services,” but noted that members still need to vote on it. The tentative agreement includes multi-year wage raises that will add up to an approximately 20 percent increase, a $1,000 bonus for current employees who worked in 2020, a $2 per hour raise for all employees effective January 1, 2024, and health care for all employees who work at least four hours per day. School workers at LAUSD are overwhelmingly women and people of color, and make an average of $25,000 year, according to union data.

FULL story at link.