Latest Update: May 28, 2025

The 140-member UTLA Bargaining Team met with LAUSD on Wednesday, May 28, over Zoom for the eighth bargaining session on the Win Our Future platform.

Our schools are in a recruitment and retention crisis, with 2,200 vacancies this semester. To address it, UTLA members have proposed fixing the broken salary schedule by building a new pay scale that attracts new teachers, rewards each year of service, and results in an average wage increase of 21% over 2 years.

After receiving the salary proposal three months ago, LAUSD still has no response. In the same bargaining session, LAUSD rejected dozens of specific proposals developed by educators to address real problems faced every day in our schools.

LAUSD’s outright rejection of so many of our proposals indicates that we should prepare for a massive escalation in the fall. We will take it step by step, but ultimately we will be prepared to do whatever it takes to force LAUSD to meet the demands that educators voted to fight for and the community stands behind.

Read more in the Bargaining Update below.