Teachers at a K–6-grade school at the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) were on strike over what they said are unfair labor practices from the university.
The UCLA Lab School—which serves about 450 students—is privately run by the university’s School of Education and Information Studies as its laboratory, with its education leaders developing innovative curricula for young children, according to the school’s website.
On Jan. 25 and 26, dozens of teachers staged a walkout, claiming that the UC “violated our rights to bargain by delaying the process and denying our right to negotiate anything other than salary,” according to a Jan. 22 statement by the University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT), the union representing teachers, lecturers, and librarians in the UC system….