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UTLA South Area Meeting

Wed. May 7, 2025

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Norms

Be an active listener
When asking questions, stick to agenda topic
Practice brevity
Be respectful

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AFT ANNOUNCEMENTS��MAY 7, 2025

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UTLA sent 20 delegates to the CFT Convention in San Diego on 3/14 – 3/16.��Our members brought 3 motions to the convention:� - Climate Change Resilience and Reversal� - Fighting Trump, the MAGA Movement, and Authoritarianism� - Building for the Unprecidented Opportunity of a Compression Point in Spring 2028��The next CFT convention will take place in Spring 2027 – more info on that next year.

CFT CONVENTION REPORT-BACK

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AFT 1021 ZOOM MEETING

TOMORROW

THURSDAY, MAY 8

6:00 PM

REGISTER ON UTLA.NET

(REGISTRATION LINK IN CALENDAR)

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CFT COMMITTEES

Determine CFT’s position on legislation
Meet 3 Saturdays per year (9/20/25, 2/07/26, 5/16/26 – May 2026 online)
When in-person, fly in/out same day (sometimes it’s on Zoom)

EXPECTATIONS:

Attend all 3 meetings
Write a short written report to share at AFT 1021 meetings

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CFT Committees

Adult Education
CTE
Civil, Human, and Women’s Rights
Early Childhood Education
Educational Technology
English Language Learners
Ethnic Diversity in Leadership
Labor and Climate Justice
PreK-12 Educational Issues
Retirement Policy
Safe and Supportive Schools
Special Education Services

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Interested in joining a committee?

Email Julie Van Winkle (julie.vanwinkle@utla.net) with your name, school, committee you’d like to join, and a brief explanation of why you are interested in that committee

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WANT TO LOBBY?�We are always looking for members to represent UTLA and CFT !

WHO?

YOU AND/OR OTHER ACTIVISTS FROM YOUR SCHOOL

WHAT?

TALK TO LEGISLATORS ABOUT EDUCATION ISSUES

WHEN?

ANY TIME REALLY – THAT’S WHY WE WANT TO HAVE A LIST OF INTERESTED PEOPLE! YOU CAN DECLINE IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT, BUT YOU WILL BE INVITED WHEN NEEDED.

WHERE?

IN SACRAMENTO OR THE LEGISLATOR’S LOCAL LA OFFICE OR EVEN ON ZOOM!

WHY?

PERSONAL STORIES TOLD BY PRACTITIONERS MAKE A HUGE IMPACT! LEGISLATORS WANT TO HEAR FROM CONSTITUENTS AND PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THEIR DISTRICTS.

�Email Julie (julie.vanwinkle@utla.net) if you are interested in being on the CFT Lobby List!

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WORKPLACE READINESS CURRICULUM

AB 800 REQUIRES ALL CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO EDUCATE STUDENTS ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS AS WORKERS, LABOR HISTORY, AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO THEM.
THIS QR CODE LINKS YOU TO A WEEK OF LESSONS ABOUT WORKPLACE READINESS!
(THE OFFICIAL “WORKPLACE READINESS AWARENESS WEEK” ALREADY PASSED, BUT THE LESSONS STILL WORK!)

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May 7, 2025

AREA MEETING

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AGENDA

Unionwide Updates

Immigration Rights Fight Back

May 17th Fight For Schools Rally

Bargaining Update

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Chapter Chair Nominations

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UNIONWIDE

UPDATES

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CHAPTER CHAIR NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS

March 26 - April 25

All members were eligible to self nominate through online form

If Only One Nominee: The one nominee MUST SUBMIT THE NOTICE OF CHAPTER CHAIR ELECTION FORM to become the 2025-26 Chapter Chair.

If More than One Nominee: Instructions for the elections have been sent

If No Nominee: Chapter Chair role filled by the first member to submit the NOCCE form.

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LA Rapid Response Network: 1-888-624-4752

Federal Agents STOPPED at Russel Ave. and Lillian St. Elementary

You may have heard On April 7th Federal Agents tried to enter two LAUSD schools - Russell Ave Elementary and Lillian St Elementary.

They were looking for 5 students.

They lied and said that the guardians of the students had authorized them to contact them.

They were stopped at the door and consistent with LAUSD’s Sanctuary Policy they were denied entry. They left.

The policy works. We have to make sure every member knows it and every principal is prepared to enforce it. You are doing critical work on that.

If you have not already done it you should meet with our principal immediately to review the protocol and insist that staff be trained on what to do if ICE or any other federal agents shows up.

Again, we should be proud that two LAUSD schools kept Federal Agent out. They likely saved those families from terrible trauma. It shows that we can make a difference so let’s stay on top of this.

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The Impact Trump’s Deportation Strategy

Undocumented immigrant registration requirement
Deportations to El Salvador
Politically motivated deportations - student activists
$1,000 financial incentive to leave the country
Criminalization of all immigrants

****Read slide and then continue with slide notes****

Since Day 1 of Trump’s Administration, he has made it clear that he will do anything to make this country hostile for immigrants of all backgrounds - the administration has harassed our students and families with the end goal being that families will self-deport.

Immigrants are being threatened with being deported to a prison without oversight in El Salvador, they are being hunted down, they are being asked to register and self deport – and as of recently, the administration will be providing an $1,000 stipend to undocumented immigrants who self-deport.

It is important that we continue to show up for our immigrant students and families. They need to know that our schools are safe for them and that we will continue to enforce the district’s sanctuary policy.

Due to these tactics, it is likely that parents have not removed their children from their schools because they do not want to disrupt their education. However, due to these tactics, they may eventually make the difficult choice to self deport back to their home countries. We may see these changes, as early as this Summer.

As we have mentioned before, enrollment will be impacted because families will either

have self deported,
go back into the shadows by moving to another city or state
and or unfortunately end in an immigration detention center,
and forcibly uprooted from their homes.

�And while the deadline to conduct community walks has passed and you were unable to, we urge you to get a team together and walk the neighborhood with the KYR door hangers. This small act of support may give a family hope to remain within their community.

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UTLA CONTRACT DEMANDS

Correct the structure of the salary tables for recruitment and retention:

Significant Salary Increase
Fix the steps to advance faster to higher pay

Targeted class size reduction and student support staffing increases

Prep time and support

Increased supports for immigrant students

Further steps to address the housing and enrollment crisis

Dozens of other specific demands of the Win Our Future Platform to make the workday more manageable, teaching more successful and the career of an educator sustainable

Investment in Stability and Sustainability

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AFTER 2 MONTHS AND 6 BARGAINING SESSIONS

NO response

NO response (just the inadequate inclusion proposal)

NO response

Salary and Wage Scales

Targeted Class Size Reduction

Increase in counselors

Increase in PSA’s and PSW’s

Workload reduction and prep time

Housing Supports

Support for Immigrant Students and Families

Special Education

School Stability, Subcontracting, Protections against cuts

Over 30 other proposals

PROPOSAL

DISTRICT RESPONSE

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LAUSD HAS THE MONEY

LAUSD has the money

They may be hiding behind the Trump chaos

We can not let them do that - our schools still have urgent needs.

Do you still need a raise? (get a response - “let me hear it”, etc

Do kids still need more counselors?

Do schools still need more staff?

Do you still need prep time?

Right. Trump changes none of that and he doesn’t change the fact that LAUSD has a 6.4 billion reserve to pay for it.

Our platform was righteous before the Trump chaos began and it is righteous now.

We told LAUSD’s bargaining team exactly this last session.

We must commit to fighting for our platform of demands. We can not get second thoughts or temper our expectations simply because Trump is tweeting and sending letters. That would be doing his work for him.

We are demanding a response from LAUSD on all outstanding issues - we need to know before the summer what their position is on our salary schedule, staffing, class size, immigrant student support and all of it.

We need to be in a position when we all meet at the leadership conference in August to make decisions about exactly what we will do collectively in the fall to force them to spend the money where it is needed - on our demands.

Are you with us on this?!!!

Good. We know we are going into a fight - so now we have to shape it.

Our struggle at LAUSD never happens in a vacuum - it is impacted by state and federal politics and funding, local and national dynamics.

While LAUSD has the money, we can not ignore the fact that our campaign, their decision to spend the money, the level of public and political support for our demands will be impacted if Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Linda McMahon go through with their plans to gut public education.

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TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS

PUBLIC HEALTH AND RESEARCH

Cutting Billions in NIH grants for cancer treatment and other research
Eliminating $1 billion in mental health grants to schools

WORKERS/WORKERS RIGHTS

Stripping 1 Million federal workers of collective bargaining rights
Putting 300,000 federal workers on forced leave, buyout or layoff

IMMIGRATION AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Mass deportation threats that terrorize communities
Silencing dissent through politically motivated deportation

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC SERVICES

Supporting a congressional budget with steep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP
Using the DEI culture war to attack federal funding for schools
Appointing voucher supporter Linda McMahon to eliminate the DoE

ECONOMIC POLICIES

Implementing an extreme tariff regime that many economists believe will result in a recession — which always hurts public schools

Cutting billions of dollars in grants that were funding cancer research and more.
Eliminating $1 billion in mental health grants to schools
Stripping 1 Million federal workers of collective bargaining rights
Putting 300,000 federal workers on forced leave, buyout or layoff
Mass deportation attempts that terrorize communities
Silencing dissent through politically motivated deportation
Publicly supporting a congressional budget that calls for steep cuts to medicaid and SNAP
Using the DEI culture war to attack federal funding for schools.
Appointed voucher supporter Linda McMahon to eliminate the department of education
Implementing a blunt and extreme tariff regime that economists believe will almost definitely result in a recession. Recessions mean cuts for public schools

This is not just politics - this is affecting all of us.

How many of you know a survivor of cancer who went through life saving treatment? Raise your hand. They are cutting funding to that research.

How many of you have someone in your life who is worried about being picked up by ICE? (if you need to, ask about students and parents)

How many of you teach in a school that needs more special education staff? They are threatening to cut that funding!

How many of you teach in a school where students depend on the free meals the school provides? They are threatening to cut that funding!

How many of you remember the 2008 financial crisis and the years of layoffs that followed? How many of you were laid off? Raise your hands. - Their planned tax cuts for the rich and extreme tariff plan could lead us back to that level of crisis.

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TRUMP’S THREAT TO CUT FEDERAL FUNDING

-110 MILLION

meals for student

-$177,116,91

in funding for Special Education

-$3,088

from every student

$1.2 BILLION

from LAUSD Students

On April 3rd, Trump’s Department of Education sent a letter to all school districts threatening to cut federal funding if schools engage in what they vaguely defined as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Their lack of clarity seems intentional - they get to define a violation how they want, when they want. That means they can cut the funds at any time.

California has sued but we know Trump ignores the courts.

The threatened cuts amount to $1.2 Billion from LAUSD Students.

That’s $3,088 from every student.

That money covers title 1.

It provides 110 million meals to kids.

It provides $177 million in funding for special education.

Stop for a second and picture the kid in your classroom who rely on those meals. Can you picture them? That’s who they are stealing from.

Picture the kids in your life who are receiving special education services. Can you see them? That’s who they are stealing from.

They are doing this just to advance their culture war and to move more money from public schools to the richest americans through tax cuts. That’s the game.

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FIGHT BACK NOW

A mass response could help undermine these cuts and his overall agenda

This action must be a demonstration that their will be consequences if they go through with these cuts - educators will not just sit back.

This is not what the decisive voters voted for

Trump and Musk’s popularity is already down

This is not what swing voters voted for.

You can see that Trump and Musks popularity is dropping - NYT poll shows trump at (% ) approval - the lowest of any president in recent history at this stage. Tesla stock, which is essentially Musk stock, dropped by 70%. It’s so bad that he is scaling back his DOGE work to 2 days a week - but he is still there!

The problem is, with the elections so far out Trump is insulated from public opinion to a degree. Even if he wasn’t we can’t just wait for the next election - the Democrats might not win that. Trump and Musk only respond to power, so we have to show them we have it.

Or May 17th action is a demonstration that there will be consequences if they cut funding to our schools. They have to understand that we will not just sit back.

We think we have the momentum to stop these cuts if we demonstrate enough power but I also want to say now that if Trump goes through with these cuts, if they steal $3,000 from each one of your students, the leadership of this union will likely come to you and say we need to shut schools down, we need to shut the city down like we did in 2019. We will say the same thing to every CTA union in the state. If they try to steal from our kids then we will shut down the economy in the largest city in the 4th largest economy in the world! Are you with us on that?!!!

So, let’s make May 17th a demonstration of our power.

It may see overwhelming but we have been here before.

In 2019 we went on strike under this same Trump administration and we won. So did educators across the country. We can win again.

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FIGHT FOR SCHOOLS: STOP TRUMP AND MUSK

SATURDAY, MAY 17

11AM-1PM

1 Rocket Rd, Hawthorne

San Francisco

San Diego

Los

Angeles

Hanford

Sacramento

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HOW TO GET TO SPACEX?

SOUTH AREA

From any Green line Metro station going towards LAX (Lakewood and Long Beach Blvd have parking space)

Metro C Line (Green) to Crenshaw Station

Metro A Line (Blue) to Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station to Metro C Line (Green) to Crenshaw Station

Parking info for A Line and C Line stations -

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WHY SPACEX?

Takes our money

$4 billion from the state of California
38 billion nationally

Leading attack on federal workers

Dismantling the public sector

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FIGHT FOR SCHOOLS: STOP TRUMP AND MUSK

UTLA Led
128 CTA Local Unions
Speakers
Music
Art projects
Button Making
Food Vendors

11 AM - Opening

12 PM - Speaker Program

1:30PM - Close

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Get written commitment - sign up sheet
Use your roster - work the list
Use your CAT
Organize carpools and social element
Make signs as a school - be seen!

SYSTEM AND TALKING POINTS

To do this we have organize for this rally like we do for our major actions at grand park.

We have to recognize that while this action is framed as about the Trump /Musk administration and public education, LAUSD will be watching.

Power is power and LAUSD will know that if we can turnout huge numbers to this we can very easily turn that power on them. This will send a message about our contract bargaining!

Do you agree that we can do this?!!!! (GET FOLKS FIRED UP)

So we will do it systematically.

You have sign up sheets (hold up). There is also a QR code on your Chapter Chair Checklist (hold it up)

Use your roster to keep track of who you spoke with and who committed.

Organize carpools - maybe make a plan to get drinks together afterward or something.

Get together and make signs - have your school be seen

You know from every big action that we have done that signed commitments make the difference.

Return the commitment sheets as soon as you get them.

Like you have in the past, organize carpools and meet ups.

Doing this systematically is the difference between 2000 people coming and 10,000.

Can you do that?!

The first thing we have to do is commit ourselves. There is a sign up sheet at your table. Fill it out now and then give it to your cluster leader. We will stop the meeting so you have time. Cluster leaders please hold it up when done.

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Make it personal - they are stealing money from YOUR students
Be specific - $3,000 per student
Be clear that the LAUSD reserve provides some protection - we will not let LAUSD hide behind Trump - but this is real money
Paint a picture of the power of the event
Make a clear ask - and get an answer
Discuss a plan to get there

TALKING POINTS

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Commit to be there yourself
Use your roster to identify the coworkers who you will prioritize talking with. Focus on 50% to get 25%.
Circle them on the roster
Take a picture of those circled names and text it to your cluster leader.
Make them the priority. Start with you CAT and divide up the list

PRIORITIZE TURNOUT

The first thing you have to do is commit to be there yourself.

As the leaders of this union, you set the tone. Your decision to get to this action will be a signal to your coworkers.

There is a sign up sheet at your table. We will stop the meeting for a few minutes so you can pass it around and sign up. Cluster leaders, hold it up when your table is done and we will collect it.

(Give people time, do not rush this).

Now we have to develop a plan to get significant turnout from your school. But that plan has to be manageable. This action is only 10 days away so you should be strategic in how you use your time. Go to the folx who are most likely to come - the ones you can always rely on for union actions.

So right now we want you to pull out your roster and a pen. Look at the list of members at your school and think about the 50% who are most reliable. Circle those names.

That is who you should go to immediately. Target 50% and you will get at least 25% of them to join you. 25% of a 39,000 member union is a huge turnout. That will send a message.

Can you do that?!!!!

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CHAPTER CHAIR CHECKLIST

Complete NOCCE Form
Organize for May 17

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New Business- Motions

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Questions and Answers?

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Announcements

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UTLA General Election Notice

There will be a General Election for Officers, Area Directors and Special Directors beginning in August 2025.

Interested in running as a candidate for UTLA Officer, Area Director, or Special Director?

Visit the UTLA Elections website utlaelections.org .

Review the content on utlaelections.org from the last election to get an idea what you can expect if you decide to run.

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UTLA South Area Point Officer

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