06.06.25 Read Time: 1 min New Procedures Adopted for MOUs and Side Letters The UTLA Officers have adopted new procedures to strengthen the process for negotiating Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) and side letters — agreements reached with the employer outside of full contract bargaining. Often, these agreements are necessary to address issues that impact a subset of UTLA members or a specific issue that was not anticipated during full contract bargaining. The new procedures would: seek to limit MOUs and side letters to time-sensitive issues that can’t wait to be addressed in full contract negotiations; create a Bargaining Team of affected members and require any agreement to be subject to approval by the UTLA Board of Directors and a vote of the impacted members; assign a staff co-lead as a partner in negotiations; and run positions and proposals by the UTLA executive director and, to the extent possible, the member bargaining team before being presented to LAUSD Recent News See All Posts The School District that Cried Wolf 04.06.25 Parents Fight for Fifth Grade at 24th Street 30.05.25 WHO Awards Honor Our Own 29.05.25 Select Language English Español