“UTLA and its president, with only token opposition from the school district, are using COVID to hold 600,000 students and their parents hostage,” Sadovnik said.
A lawsuit described as the “first of its kind” is targeting a Los Angeles teachers union, as well as the L.A. Unified School District in a desperate bid by parents to reopen schools.
The lawsuit filed on Tuesday contends that United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing teachers in the district, has been the main barrier to reopening schools.
“It’s bad enough UTLA is demanding changes to its collective bargaining agreement in mid-contract without even bothering to call a strike that might result in the teachers actually doing without a paycheck,” Shella Sadovnik, an attorney with the Freedom Foundation, said in a news release on the organization’s website.
“But it’s also demanding without benefit of an election political changes not even the most liberal state in the nation has seen fit to approve.”
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