Overview
- SEIU Local 99 and the district reached an agreement in principle around 2 a.m. Tuesday, allowing Los Angeles schools to open as planned.
- The three unions had pledged a joint walkout if any one group lacked a deal, a solidarity move that threatened to close about 1,300 campuses serving roughly 400,000 students.
- SEIU Local 99 says the tentative pact includes a roughly 24% wage increase, added hours that secure health coverage, an end to subcontracting, expanded benefits for more roles, and the rescinding of hundreds of IT layoffs.
- Teachers secured a two-year deal that raises starting pay to $77,000 and lifts salary scales by 11.65%, while administrators won pay increases and clearer work-hour boundaries under a separate tentative agreement.
- Union members must approve the contracts and the school board must sign off, with fiscal impacts and rollout details to be worked out as the nation’s second-largest district implements the changes.