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East Region PSA

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April 1st. 2025

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Ofelia Sofia Ryan

UTLA PSA Chapter Chair

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Co-Chair:

Adriana De La Torre

Cesar Chaparro

Stuart Hall

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East Region PSA

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CHAPTER ACTION TEAM (CAT) LEADERS

Liliana Nochez

Lucia Rojas

Diana Valencia

Marisa Gongora

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UTLA Contract Demands:

Investment in Stability and Sustainability

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  • Teacher: Specific demands to make teaching more successful and the career of an educator sustainable. Fix the steps to advance faster to higher pay.
  • We will review our demands in the next slides.

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UTLA Salary Proposal

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Remember, we have not received LAUSD response to this proposal yet.

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PRINCIPLES OF UTLA’S SALARY PROPOSAL

Recruit: Competitive starting pay to address shortage

Retain: Fair steps for years of service and salary points

Maximize wealth: Progress to the higher rates quickly

STEPS:

Year 1: Implement all new pay scales

Year 2: 3% across the board increase (to new scales)

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UTLA’S PROPOSED D-TABLE SALARIES (PSA 33D)

Steps 1-5:

Increase 5.4% to 5.5%

Steps C1-C4:

Increase 1.6% to 2%

16% Increase to Table

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UTLA’S PROPOSED D-TABLE SALARIES (PSA 33D)

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Our Proposals:

  • Centrally funded PSA Counselors, ratio 1:400 students

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  • Additional 0.5 FTE for schools w/ 20%+ chronic absenteeism

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  • 300 more SSS counselors

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  • 5 PSACs per region to support immigrant families

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  • Option to work B basis
  • One PSA per region to support pregnant & parenting students
  • Bilingual stipend

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  • Homeless liaison stipend

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  • BSAP new article of contract add BSAP PSA in

Group 1 & 2 schools

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  • MSND

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  • Mental health time

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  • Workspace

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  • Bargaining continues, SIGN THE PLEDGE!

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  • Find all the current proposals online

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https://utla.net/win-our-future-bargaining-session-5/

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It is in our best interest to support the proposals.

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Next step: Sign the pledge!

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SIGN THE PLEDGE!

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In addition we need to attend two meetings:

April 30th

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Plus the first Meeting in August to elect the new HHS board

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Please mark your calendars and plan to attend.

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Rather than sharing the slides with your colleagues we ask you to refer them to your UTLA Leader. This will help us to improve communication and they will be able to get their seniority number too:

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SSP Counselors

A - G Counselors

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We are ready to support you, please reach out!