Teachers face pay cuts or layoffs
Los Angeles Unified schools chief Ramon Cortines told unions Friday that they must accept a combination of furloughs and pay cuts this year and next or the district will be forced to lay off up to 8,500 employees.Connie Llanos in the Daily News.
Saying the district needed to bridge a $480 million budget gap for the 2010-11 school year, Cortines asked all employees to accept four furlough days this year and a 12 percent pay cut next year.
SEIU Local 99, representing service workers, and the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles said they were open to discuss the concessions. A United Teachers Los Angeles representative was not available for comment.
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