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.
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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
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