Mammoth sum taxpayers will fork out after LAUSD caved on deal with unions

Source: New York Post

Los Angeles taxpayers are about to be on the hook for the massive pay out that LAUSD agreed to pay workers of three different unions after it averted an 11th hour strike. The cash strapped district avoided a massive strike on Tuesday by tentatively agreeing to hand its staff generous pay raises — even while students in the troubled district are scoring lower than the rest of the state and its leadership faces investigations from federal and local authorities. In order to avoid the strike that would’ve kept kids out of school on Tuesday after the union members vowed to hit the picket line together, the district agreed to three different contract agreements that will cost it close to $1.