Cecily Myart-Cruz (Pres of UTLA) has it right. ✊
If we are going to #TaxtheRich and say no to austerity, we are going to have to make phonecalls! ☎️
Lets make phonecalls today at 7:00pm to fund our schools and services & get a #YesOn15
👉SIGN UP HERE: https://t.co/rXPio7kHir
@Ustroopss No cheating 100% overwhelmingly! These encumbants keep their seats with through a network of criminal activity via launder money and secret commie meetings to organize. If you dig i bet you find lots of LAUSD teachers involved.
@TheLeoTerrell@realDonaldTrump@WhiteHouse@kdeutschjourno Glad she's safe! UTLA had its Raza Committee + Union del Barrio beat up whistleblowers, circa 2015-18. Few were brave enough to file charges + go to court. Unfortunately, 1 teacher's budget for attorneys is no match for the UTLA machinery. We're in need of a class action lawsuit!
@JewTLA UTLA has been an antisemitic cesspool for many years.
Again, it broke its agreement to have free speech and a safe workplace for Jews last night.
UTLA’s behavior in the post above is as revolting as it is disturbing.
Receipts.
This is hardcore hate.
@ICANAction
@JewTLA Glad you're safe and glad you weren't physically assaulted! It used to be the norm at UTLA! Thank goodness others took Ingrid Villeda, Olga Calacuayo, Kelly Flores and Union del Barrio to court in the past. I can only imagine what could have happened if this was 2015-2018.
Last night, at an official UTLA House of Representatives meeting, 160 credentialed teachers — the people who teach your children — spent thirty minutes denouncing me by name, declared that Zionism is racism, and then voted to expel me. I never said a single word the entire meeting.
For two hours I sat silently as an observer, which is my right as a union member in good standing. Then someone noticed I was there. What followed was half an hour of teachers explaining how terrible I am, how Zionism is racism, and how I had personally tried to get them fired — stories I don’t recognize and that anyone who knows how schools work would find laughable.
Then they voted out the only Orthodox Jew in the room.
No charges. No process. No hearing. Just organized hostility, a vote, and a gavel.
I’ve been doing antisemitism accountability work in K-12 education for years. I file complaints. I document. I publish. I name names. Apparently my silent presence on a Zoom call is a five-alarm emergency.
I want to be clear about what happened: a union used official meeting time to conduct a public denunciation of a Jewish advocate, then expelled her for the crime of showing up and saying nothing.
I’ve been kicked out of better places.
But I’ve never been more certain the work is landing.
Celebrate all you want CTA/Goldberg, $500 million statewide translates to pennies to LAUSD, still needing $3.6 BILLION in cuts.
But your members got raises🎇…
old-timers not headed to layoffs, that is.
Newer UTLA teachers were cannon fodder. When you fight! elites win.
“Passing the trash.” That’s the term for quietly shuffling accused teachers into new classrooms instead of firing them.
According to the New York Post, union contracts pushed by UTLA make it incredibly difficult to remove sexual predators while parents are kept in the dark.
Shockingly, the American Federation of Teachers -- which includes UTLA as an affiliate -- has opposed mandatory reporting requirements for child sexual abuse allegations involving teachers. AFT boss Randi Weingarten even claimed mandatory reporting can “accidentally catalyze harm.”
Translation: the system protects predators first and kids last.
Basically, that's par for the course. As former AFT president Al Shanker once said: “When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.”
https://t.co/wWK0wc2M35
@latimes Howard Blume might as well pay dues to UTLA.
Fuck UTLA, fuck LAUSD, fuck the board, and fuck the LA Times. You are all one greasy ball of turd.
Nobody should be trapped in 720 square miles of shit schools. We escaped but we had the money to escape. So many others are doomed
@WeAreCTA I think LAUSD is a dumpster fire and clearly @UTLAnow is a socialist, racist pile of vomit but holy shit is it gangster for the district to promise raises to the retarded union leadership to avoid a strike then vote to deny the raises 2 days after school ends
U R dumb as can be
https://t.co/evPEPFaSoV
Today is the day we get to hear how 7 fucking idiots, a corrupt superintendent, and an insane teacher union destroyed an entire district. Then, get to hear how the same group pretends like they didn’t do it but need more money to do the same actions.