Latest Update: September 10, 2025
The UTLA Bargaining Team (now 150 members strong) met with LAUSD tonight for the 11th bargaining session. After seven months (including the entire summer break) to work on a counter to UTLA’s thoughtfully presented salary proposal, the district showed up for the 11th bargaining session with a beyond insulting counterproposal: The district had all summer to come back to bargaining with real movement on our demands that reflect their $4.9 billion in reserves — and they failed.
The district is content to sit on the largest school reserves in the country while our communities are under attack, educators are overworked and underpaid, and students and schools are underresourced.
Read more in the Bargaining Update below.