President's Perspective

Who’s been Naughty and who’s been Nice?

cryder — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:06:29 -0500

December 2008 - With the holiday season upon us, it's time once again for my "Naughty and Nice" list. read more »

With Crisis Comes Opportunity

cryder — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:15:20 -0500

November 2008 - There are thousands of lasting lessons to be learned from the election of Barack Obama, but the one that sticks with me the most is that anything is possible. read more »

They spend, they spend, they spend

cryder — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:28:47 -0500

October 2008 - If you were a UTLA member during the 1989 strike, you probably remember then-president Wayne Johnson's famous rallying cry about LAUSD bureaucrats: "They lie, they lie, they lie." read more »

State of the Union

virgil — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:16:01 -0400

September 2008 - From the speech delivered by UTLA President A.J. Duffy at the UTLA Leadership Conference in August. read more »

Changing the landscape of LAUSD

virgil — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:51:09 -0400

August 2008 - It hasn’t been an exactly worry-free summer for UTLA members. In the middle of a national and state economic crisis, we’re facing the threat of forced furlough days, cuts to health benefits, and an intransigent LAUSD leadership that refuses to make the deep cuts to consultant contracts and other nonessentials to fund our classrooms. read more »

Furlough days? Fuggedaboutit!

virgil — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:20:36 -0400

July 2008 - Take a look at the preliminary 2008-2009 budget passed by the LAUSD School Board last month and you won’t find the words “PAY CUTS” in big, bold letters, but they are there, in the form of four forced furlough days and the elimination of buy-back days. read more »

Fiscal responsibility or fiscal insanity?

virgil — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:46:49 -0400

June 2008 - Our membership is filled with people of varying political views. We have Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Peace and Freedom, and Green Party people—and that’s one of the things that makes the union great. read more »

A stronger union for less than a cup of coffee

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:48:31 -0400

May 2008 - Whatever you might say about democracy-it can be cumbersome and slow to meet the needs of the people- read more »

No time to stand on the sidelines

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:24:56 -0400

April 2008 - The state budget crisis is all over the airwaves read more »

Pulling Together

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:39:36 -0400

March 2008 - Was this an election as we’ve come to know them in modern-day America? read more »