{"id":394073,"date":"2019-01-25T00:58:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T23:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/l-a-teachers-strike-dispatch-9-what-we-won\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T00:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T23:58:57","slug":"l-a-teachers-strike-dispatch-9-what-we-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/l-a-teachers-strike-dispatch-9-what-we-won\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Teachers Strike Dispatch #9: What We Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The United Teachers of Los Angeles strike was enormously popular, with tens of thousands of parents and students joining already full picketlines. There were many intangibles won, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We learned that despite the PR hatchet job the anti-union, anti-public school forces have waged for the past 25 years, the general public still very much believes in public education and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The strike provided the opportunity to educate the public on the way their children are being shortchanged by the Los Angeles Unified School District, and our schools drained of funds by the charter industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Many LAUSD school administrators were won over to the teachers and the teachers\u2019 union\u2019s demands, and were unenthused\u2014to say the least\u2014about the current LAUSD leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Much of the media has been sympathetic, even if they were not originally sympathetic to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner\u2019s plan to break up LAUSD into 32 separate entities and charterize it\u2014while not part of these contract negotiations\u2014has suffered a serious blow. Maybe even Beutner himself is seeing his thinking begin to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We showed our strength as we head next year into the next battle\u2014the battle to preserve our healthcare. LAUSD tried (unsuccessfully) to cut it last year, and the austerity attempts will be back.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In waging a strike not for money for ourselves&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/24\/teachers-strike-dispatch-9-what-we-won\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Teachers of Los Angeles strike was enormously popular, with tens of thousands of parents and students joining already full picketlines. There were many intangibles won, including but not limited to: \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We learned that despite the PR hatchet job the anti-union, anti-public school forces have waged for the past 25 years, the general public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}