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As a grandfather within the LAUSD, I fully support the employees. It is a shame that they have to fight for any benefits. Teachers and service workers have been undervalued consistantly over the decades across the nation.
you the people of this country really hate teachers and schools. so dont go saying these things when you are part of the problem
Years ago back in the 90's progressive Berkeley CA was paying people with no degree to pick up trash starting at 60,000 a year. Starting pay for teachers with a degree was 36,000 a year. They were paying more to take care of trash than to take care of our children. What does that say about what we think of our children.
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It says that we don't want our children to be surrounded by trash? I'm not sure that's the diss you think it is...
Teachers and school service staff being undervalued has nothing to do with other service workers, so as an electrician I'm saying stop trying to pit workers against workers.
School district brass giving themselves OUTRAGEOUS salaries are far more likely be the source of the issue than the city sanitation department.
Try again, but do better this time.
I'd apologize for the vitriol but I'm SICK of this mentality that OTHER WORKING CLASS PEOPLE are the dang problem.
DO. BETTER.
@Ray Michael My kid's a teacher and my wife worked 27 years with special needs children. Starting wages for teachers with 4 year degrees is about 30,000 dollars.Theres a reason the best and brightest are shunning teaching as a career.
Having to go on strike when LAUSD is sitting on 4.9 BILLION dollars on reserve is straight up ridiculous
My girlfriend’s mom is a “lunch lady” in this district. She does so, so much more than just cook lunch for these kids, and until today got paid essentially minimum wage. I remember when I first met her she had just gotten told off for giving a student lunch when he couldn’t afford it. She eventually started buying this student food WITH HER OWN MONEY until his free lunch paperwork went through to avoid getting fired, simply because she did not want to see him keep asking friends for their juice boxes and the top buns off of their chicken sandwiches. These people care for kids a million times more than those trying to ban books and critical thinking in our classrooms.
For some reason I'm reminded of the proposal to make kids who are poor and whose parents cannot afford to buy lunches work off their 'debt' - by doing janitorial type services in the schools. I don't remember where this was proposed, but I do remember it was Good Conservatives who proposed it. It nauseated me, because I've seen and studied the reality.
I'd bet that your girlfriend's mom also greatly improved the educational outcome for those students.
In this hellhole of a county, tracking is a common thing - and it always seems that poor people are put on the 'dummy track' (I've heard it called that many times) while rich kids are "college Prep" - even those who aren't that capable. A large part of it is stereotypes about people who happen to be poor (and usually through no fault of their own). Thus, the punitive ideas behind the 'punishment' your girlfriend's mom and the poor kids experienced.
I'm delighted at what she did!
I was one of these kids, the lunch ladies always made sure I had food till my parents could figure out the paperwork. I am forever grateful to them, no one should go hungry
@@RedHeart64 I went to school in the late 60s and early 70s in a very small country school district. Starting in 5th grade, 2 students a day would work in the cafeteria washing dishes and pans. We received a free lunch and a quarter a day. In Jr high, the same program except it was 4 students because it was a grade school and Jr high combined in the same building. In high school, girls on the free lunch program would work the cafeteria and the guys would do janitorial chores. They were paid with lunch and a dollar a day. Nobody saw any shame in this. It just was. Also, everyone was white except for the 2 adopted kids and one year we had an exchange student from Nicaragua. It was also pre-name brands. We had 4 choices of clothes: K-Mart, Sears, hand me downs or Mom's sewing machine. Seems crazy now.
$25,000 in one of the most expensive areas in the country? Even in rural America that's pushing things.
To be considered middle class in California now requires 100k per year.
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Umm... $100k in SoCal is just above abject poverty.
$22.50 an hour just means, they'll have enough bus/gas money to get to their 2 other jobs!
Wow!
One of the richest states in the union, in supposedly the wealthiest biggest bestest country in the universe, and that’s how much education (and ancillary services) are valued.
Wow.
Third world is looking good.
It explains the Amazon wishlists, that's for certain.
@Wreckz Alottovdatime Don't lie. I live in the OC and do fine on much less than $100k. It's expensive but this is a wild overstatement.
As the daughter of a life long teacher I can tell you, teachers HATE HATE striking. It is bad for their families, it is bad for their students. It is done as the ultimate last resort, when every other negotiation tool has been exhausted. So when a teacher's union goes on strike, it isn't over something frivolous or extravagant. It's over something massive and life changing.
If people were paid by the importance, discomfort, dangers, and hardships of their job, then people who were sanitation engineers and teachers would be multi-millionaires, while CEO's and billionaires would be homeless.
We the 99% create more than 99% of all the wealth. The 1% steal 50% of the wealth we as a society create, and use that wealth they steal from us to *buy the laws* that allow them to keep stealing more and more of this wealth. Soon it will 60%, then 70%, then 80%, then 90%. At what point will people realize we are *all slaves* for the entertainment of the 1%? We The People have exactly *zero* need for the wealthy elite, and yet they would not and could not exist without US.
I usually put it this way: If hard work made you rich, then the richest person on the planet would be somebody in Indonesia who has been stitching shoes 16 hours a day since they were 12.
People just want to be able to pay for a roof over their heads, food, car, gas and other necessities of life. No one gets outraged when the stock price increases for corporations that lay off thousands of workers while at the same time the CEO gets a bonus for “cost cutting”.
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I get outraged, and then I get sad
I, too, am sick of this disparity. I am also really tired of corporate welfare.
It's crazy to me that education is so highly valued by employers, but the teachers providing that education are so undervalued.
They got EVERYTHING they wanted PLUS Free Health care for Part-time workers who are assigned 4 work hrs a day. This is a HUGE victory as they've been without a contract for years. And a ton of credit has to go to LA Mayor Karen Bass. Next year the Teachers contract comes up for negotiations and SEIU will support the Teachers union the same way.
Health care for four-hour employees generally only includes the employees, not their families.
It makes me seriously despair that people in this country are so uncaring about the well being of others, especially those who choose to go into support fields that are fundamental to society such as education, health caregiving/support services, etc.
Compassion = Strength
All heroes endeavor to selflessly help other and defend those less able to defend themselves.
Selfishness = Weakness
All villains endeavor to selfishly take all they can, regardless of the harm done.
LAUSD is Los Angelos Unified School District, located in LA County, including LA city. Is governed by democrats who win their seats by margins exceeding 25%. The last republican mayor was in 2001. LA city council has 13 democrats and 1 independent. There isn't a responsible republican in any position of authority. Just who responsible are you calling uncaring about the well-being of others?
Such mindless accusations are why Beau needs to spend more time and explain the obstacles that stymie the good intentions of everyone involved. I'm sure both sides of the negotiations wanted to provide 50$ an hour but were somehow unable too.
@@setsoru5319 : Sorry, but the truth is that the republicans are traitors and don't care about their country, let alone education. Every bill they try to pass now is rooted in bigoted idealism (anti-freedom). Can you name even one thing the republicans have done for the average American in the past decade? 45's tax breaks don't count because from the start it was set to expire in 2021. But 45 and it's buddies breaks were *permanent.*
All right wing media has to do is say "teachers union" and their audience will be against it, whatever it is.
@@setsoru5319 She did not mention either political party. The fact is that these workers are not, overall, a high legislative priority in the US.
We need to stop overfunding police and underfunding schools.
Janitors and lunch ladies deserve more. More money, more bennies, and more respect.
It's about time the American Educators get hefty raises for all the incredible work you do: Signed, A Canadian Teacher
Unfortunately the same thing will not happen in any red states and probably not in many more blue states. Our teachers deserve better.
There are, in fact, teachers' strikes in red states. West Virginia was a big one a few years ago, and with the way news covers (or more accurately, _doesn't_ cover) protests there's undoubtedly more happening on a regular basis. "It won't happen in places that aren't already liberal" is mixing up cause & effect. Because the needs are not being met there WILL be strikes.
Hey Comfey, I'm visiting my daughter in Jax FL, who is a high school art teacher. She went grocery shopping, I helped bring the bags in. Three bags went back to the car, granola bars and such, she feeds breakfast to her kids who need it. To my mind, that's a caring, loving kind of teacher. Proud that I had a hand in raising her!
@@markrenfrow9873 you should be proud of her. But we shouldn't be proud of a system that causes teachers to spend their little salary on snacks for kids. Or art stuff, whatever. They deserve better pay and a fund for stuff they need for classes. They could use more training too. And better security. We can afford to pay for defense contractors but not education. It's crazy.
Don't forget the support staff. Thus was about support staff. The janitors, cafeteria workers and bus drivers are all also doing necessary hard work that enables the teachers to do their job. And we get even less respect than the teachers.
Support for the workers & congratulations on their victory.
It's a hard pill to swallow when much of the staff has experienced homelessness WHILE working for the district at the same time the super makes more money than Gavin Newsom.
I go to school in LAUSD. It is sad to see my teachers not be able to live in the same areas they teach.
Oh. I love a bit of good news, on my way to bed. 🌠
Schools very literally cannot function without support staff.
Custodians, admin assistants, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, librarians and et cetera make sure that schools run in practical terms, AND they support and interact with students.
They deserve so much better than they often get (including recognition). I'm glad for this particular victory. 🥳✨
Weird how CEOs add no value yet earn so much when teachers and school staff literally shape society but don't earn enough to live on.
Good on the teachers for supporting them! They don’t even really make enough to survive on their salaries if they have student loan payments, and I couldn’t imagine making as little as the support professionals for the amount of work they put in.
Fighting to have just decent education includes everyone creating the space to make it so. Our number one investment into society should be education. Nothing is more important!
Before the reagan administration began the intentional destruction of out public school system, it was #1 in the world. Now we are no longer in the top 20. The same administration is responsible for this as well..
1940-1980 Median wage growth rose 260%. 1981-2020 Median wage growth rose 5.4%.
Only BS tricklesdown.
Free education is one of the most undervalued aspects of a free society. It's shameful that we disrespect those that provide teaching *AND PROTECTION* to students so much. These people deserve much more than what has been offered.
Greetings Beau and all his Followers. Teachers and all Custodians are very important in school. They make the school run in Harmony. They are need Respect. Financially.
Yeps. I just left this comment before I read yours..
_If people were paid by the importance, discomfort, dangers, and hardships of their job, then people who were sanitation engineers and teachers would be multi-millionaires, while CEO's and billionaires would be homeless._
Considering what we hear about teaching in other States, it is nice to see that California is not treating it's educators as pawns (I know that these are the custodial staff, but other places might have penalized the teachers for supporting them).
They are though, just not *as* bad. Here in California, to just be considered middle class is making at least 100k.
I'm a substitute teacher in LAUSD. Most of those who are members SEIU union are some of the hrdest working people and I definitely would struggle a lot more without the paraprofessionals (some people know them as teacher aides) were not there. The fact that many of their hourly wages were less than a entry level fast food worker is just flat out insulting.
The idea of needing two jobs is just baffling.
Most of these positions are part time.
Yay! This is a great news! They’ll almost be able to pay rent now!-A 2 bedroom apartment in LA is over $3,000 a month.
Middle class in California now requires at least 100k per year.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 The mortgage payment for the average home price in California ($700,000) is $4,657 a month. Even someone earning over 100k can’t afford to buy a house alone.
My granddaughter graduates in June from a LA public high school. She has gotten an outstanding education there.
Beau... I'm bolstered by the advances this union has made. It might not be all they wanted but it's a first step. This country needs to put more emphasis on the worth of education and those whose provide it.
Union strong! IBEW 46 ✊
Thanks for covering this. My son and daughter-in-law are high school teachers in LAUSD. Just heard from him earlier today, as of noon there was still a strong possibility that UTLA will strike in the near future, so we’ll probably know soon. They deserve everything they ask for and more.
Yes, teachers are in the middle of contract negotiations as well. Hopefully we won't have to strike a second time.
That's a ridiculously low salary.
25k for L.A. That's a disgrace. They have my support, if that means anything.
25k/year??! in a major american city is ridiculous for a job that extends well past 'school hours'
The value of labor is criminally underrated.
Many of the employees involved are making below poverty level wages. The employees in LAUSD are currently paid way below many other districts in the state (in spite of statements made by the superintendent).
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As a Beau subscriber for years, it's nice to see the LAUSD strike covered properly. Have to add however that even making 40 G a year in Los Angeles requires that you have two jobs, so many of these workers, some of their kids are my kids friends, this strike will help a little bit for sure, but still a ways to go.
Los Angeles is a big city it's expensive.
To be considered middle class in California one needs to make at least 100k per year.
40k per year in California is poverty wages.
Really? What is the minimum wage there?
@@Mikathedog100 15.50 per hour
@@tomallen5837 ouch....but, I'm assuming you can't get the hours to make that work?
Just out of curiosity, when you guys do employment figures in the US, are you counting all employment, as opposed to 30 plus hours a week?
@Prince and friends not sure I can help you with that information. Personally I'm not in that financial position but I do know the other person in this thread is accurate in that it's about 100K a year to have a decent living in LA. Factor in children and other living expenses... That's pretty much where it's at in Los Angeles.
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Why would you not want the best people, earning good salaries, teaching your children?
A question I've had for a good 40 years now. Children are our future. Teachers and classified employees generally are in it for the love, not the $$, in my experience. Employee burn out is high.
Is it so much to ask a country to fully fund our education system?
Teachers and aids should get a lot more pay. Period.
Teachers should be demanding hazard pay at this point… I am very happy they are getting raises. I think it’s a national disgrace the way we under pay and devalue teachers.
Good morning
Google says LAUSD has an annual budget of $12.6 billion for 2022/23 and LAPD's for 22/23 is $11.8 billion which seems pretty good until you look at the number of employees both agencies have, LAUSD has around 75,000 employees as compared to LAPD's 13,000 total. (On a side note, it'd be interesting to see what the cost of upkeep on their respective buildings would be too, I'd bet there's far more schools than police stations/jails.)
We really need to get our priorities straightened out in this country.
You’re comparing apples to oranges.
@@villanuevafamily4 - I'm comparing two government agencies and the way I see it, the wrong one is getting more money.
@@villanuevafamily4 - You've got to be the most unlucky person I've ever heard of. Maybe if all those criminal young men had a better education and more opportunities in life they wouldn't have become the people that so terrorized you.
Have a think about all the times a crime has happened to you, how many of those times did the police stop those crimes from happening, how did they help you after the fact, and how many of the perpetrators of the crimes against you ended up paying in anyway for their crimes against you? Do the cops in LA REALLY need that $12 billion or are they just lining their pockets?
Edit: It's a shame you deleted your second comment where you listed a litany of crimes committed against you in LA an San Diego over the last 20 years.
I am a school bus driver in Southern Maine our starting pay is around $20/hr. $22.52 in LA is a start but still isn't a living wage in LA.
Thank you Kevin. I can't fathom being a school bus driver; a huge responsibility to get our students from point A to point B and back. 😊
Leadership in corporations and organizations needs to be schooled on what a living wage is.
Paying a full time worker 25K a year? This is ridiculous.
46,841.60 annually is still bad
Happy Sunday, Beau and 5th Columners! If you are reading this then we have another day to make do the next right thing and un-do the damage trump and his ilk forced on us behind closed doors. 🎉
The key to a successful labor movement is union members never crossing another union's picket line. If an employer is being picketed, don't work there, don't shop there.
Minneapolis just went through this same sort of struggle. Fists high for the working folk/class!
I'm a teacher's aide in Wisconsin and my hourly is slightly above 20, which is a decent hourly in this part of the country but is less than 30k annually. The worst part is that after school activities and summer school only pay 15 hourly.
A decent wage makes a person middle class. Isn't 30k closer to the poverty level? I'm glad you're doing alright, but you should be treated much better too. Most of us are being screwed over big time ever since 1981..
1940-1980 Median wage growth rose 260%. 1981-2020 Median wage growth rose 5.4%.
Only BS tricklesdown.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I said the hourly is decent. For a full time job it works out to a little over 40k. We only work when school is in session so our annual is much lower.
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Congratulations to those worker.
"healthcare for those working more than 4 hours a day" well say hello to teachers/assistants being switched out half way through the school day.
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Give it up to Jane McAlevey!🥳
I'm a DOD civilian employee, my hours have been cut from 40 and my pay has been cut by 6 dollars an hour. And our union can't strike even if they wanted to. I feel really underappreciated.
Reagan all but killed collective bargaining with the Air Traffic Controllers mass firing. Glad to see someone getting some concessions.
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Don’t forget that LAUSD is sitting on 4.9 billion dollars in their reserves. They seem to want to hold on to that money for no good reason. They haven’t released any plans to do anything with that money. Yet the board of directors just got a 174% raise!!
There's power in a union! ❤
Thank You Beau for all the Information you provide.
I can always tell the video is coming to an end when the picture of Beau drinking from a Mason jar pops up on the screen in the little circle on the left.
$25k in LA? That's not undervalued, that's a slap in the face. It's always a mind-screw how little we value the most integral jobs in this country.
Everyone in education has at least two jobs. You can't afford to just teach.
The LA teachers Union are in negotiations. It seems the relationship between the two have been rocky for five years. The teachers last strikes in 2019. It became an LAUSD talking point after COVID. In 2019 the SEIUL did cross the picket lines.
Beau, thankyou. Now if only teachers everywhere could get decent pay and more! Support, like not being fired for actually teaching would be good!👍💖💙🥰✌
It's shocking to me that we consistently pay the people who are trusted with the care of our most vulnerable demographics (children & the elderly) insultingly low wages.
Nice to hear about a win.
Collective Bargaining can be TOUGH as F*** 💥💯
Is it too much to ask that we don't NEED to work multiple jobs to simply scrape by?
Awesome! Maybe now teachers can have _one less_ roommate.
Good news, everyone 🖖
Strikes have been working for workers in the UK too. Health workers, doctors, nurses, train drivers have all got better pay deals.
Love tou beau! Trust your stuff more than most. Thank you for your work.
Housing and the cost of living in LA are much higher than most of the country. I wanna say it's something like $35-40k a year, so 25k isn't as much as you might think
I am so happy for them. They deserve more, but I’m happy they at least got this. That superintendent complaining over and over that they couldn’t pay their employees a living wage… if you can’t, then you’re doing something wrong. We’re in negotiations this year too. It’s the worst.
remember a living wage in Los Angeles is roughly $30/hour.
Oh my god! $25k a year in Los Angeles!? I made more than that my first year doing tech support at DirecTV back in 2013 -- in Tulsa, Oklahoma, no less, with the 4th lowest cost of living in the country.
Holy shit I can't believe there's any teachers left out there. Wtf are we doing??
They deserve more because they help educate our children
Thank you for the information.
Good morning lovelies. Tricky Beau.
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Hey Beau and internet folks.
The professions which have the MOST influence on the development of children, are paid the LEAST. The professions which have the LEAST influence on the development of children, are paid the MOST. -- And then we wonder why we have problems.
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Good news.
Thanks Beau 😊
Howdy my friend glad to be waiting for you
As a teacher I always tell my students to be nice to the support staff because they are the most important workers in the building. My hierarchy of workers goes, front desk receptionist, custodial and food service, secretaries and paras, teachers, and then administrators. Our pay scale is upside down.
Amen good news!
Has it been forgotten what strengthens a society, that it has to be fought for down to the penny? Teachers should be a higher priority than public servants. Good teachers are shaping the future.
I dont see how someone can get by in LA on even 35,000 a year.
California is doing it right higher pay for teachers instead of floriduh banning books!!!
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Thanks!
If only the teacher " associations" in Florida didn't have their hands tied....
It's good to see the teachers and teachers union support the support staff in this. Aides and others help make teaching easier. Everyone should appreciate that.
Thanks for covering this story! 💜🌎🍏
$25k is about half of what a full-time fast food worker with benefits can make in Canada.
How can a school district underpay its staff this much? And how did America become such a race to the bottom with wages?
I'm stumped in the $2 per hour raise - that's much less than $5G per year for a 40hr per week employee (and most of these employees are part time) - for God's sake that alone should be given. If that's the minimum they want, these people are not being greedy - esp as it'll be wiped out by next Jan with the way inflation is going 🤞💜
I'm a 27yr janitor with L.A.U.S..D at many schools there is only 1 janitor at night and they have to clean the entire school I'm lucky to have a cool Plant Manager and Principal my teachers for the most part work with me. Some Principals and Plant Managers treat us very harshly. I had to transfer from a site where 6hrs was just cleaning the restrooms plus 25 classrooms offices and hallways. Even with the proposed raise we will still be underpaid.