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Similarly, teaching assistants at the University of California at Berkeley started a union campaign in 1983. [29] Eventually in 1993, exam readers and tutors, but not graduate assistants, were given collective bargaining rights at Berkeley. [30] [31] Full collective bargaining status to all teaching assistants was not given until 1999. [29]
Average annual teacher salaries ranged from $41,000 to more than $150,000. See teacher pay for each California school district. Most teachers got a modest pay raise
University of California academic workers participating in the strike were organized in four bargaining units represented by three different United Auto Workers unions: Student Researchers United-UAW represents student researchers, UAW Local 2865 represents graduate tutors, teaching assistants and readers, and UAW Local 5810 represents postdoctoral and academic researchers. [4]
For decades, California had enjoyed full funding for its schools and unique educational programs. Then in 1978, California voters approved Proposition 13 in an attempt to cut property taxes. The state's public school system and its employees would never be the same. By 1995, California plummeted from fifth in the country to 40th in school spending.
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A school district in northern California said 10 teachers left the district last year because of high living costs.
The California Teachers Association (CTA) is a teachers' trade union based in the city of Burlingame, California.The association was initially established in 1863. It is regarded as one of the largest and most powerful [2] teachers' unions in the state with over 300,000 members and a high political profile in California politics. [3]
The state already suspended its popular leave buy-back program as part of an “expenditure freeze” to cut costs.