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Omaha Steve

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Tue Jun 7, 2016, 09:43 PM Jun 2016

Mixed ruling on claims Alliance charter school leaders obstructed teachers union organizing

Source: KPCC

Did Los Angeles' largest chain of charter schools attempt to bust its teachers' efforts to unionize? Yes and no, a judge has ruled.

On one hand, Administrative Law Judge Kent Morizawa found administrators at Alliance College-Ready Public Schools acted unlawfully when they blocked teachers union organizers from two campuses and redirected the union's emails to teachers' spam folders for a time.

But in his decision last Friday, he also ruled that three written communications Alliance leaders sent to the charter networks' teachers and parents — all of which criticized the union in the midst of the organizing effort — were in-bounds.

Both the union and the charter network's leaders found something to like in Morizawa's ruling for the state's Public Employment Relations Board.

FULL story at link.


FILE - Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, a union representing L.A. Unified teachers, speaks during a rally in February. KYLE STOKES/KPCC

Read more: http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/06/07/61411/mixed-ruling-on-claims-alliance-charter-school-lea/

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