Randy Childs

United Teachers Los Angeles has a major battle--one with national implications--on its hands over the future of public schools.

As the school year begins to wind down, a major labor battle is looming in the country's second-largest school district.

Los Angeles police recently killed a man at a busy tourist spot--because, they claim, he was armed with a pocket knife.

New leaders for the Los Angeles teachers' union helped oust a superintendent and are gearing up for contract showdown.

The Union Power campaign for leadership of UTLA has sharpened the debate in the second-biggest teachers' union in the U.S.

Union teachers in Los Angeles are voting on an initiative that calls for a sharp shift in strategy for confronting the "reformers."

Teachers at two Cal State campuses went on a one-day strike to raise awareness about the crisis in the CSU system.

Members of United Teachers Los Angeles face a choice between incumbent reformers trying to take the union forward and more conservative challengers.

A proposed legal settlement to limit teacher layoffs in some heavily minority schools in LA is being exploited by school "reformers" for their own ends.

Members of United Teachers Los Angeles approved a new contract that accepts furlough days in order to prevent more than 2,000 threatened layoffs.

Layoffs, charter schools and attacks on teacher seniority are the latest salvos in the relentless attack on Los Angeles schools.

By threatening sanctions that could bankrupt the union if LA teachers hold a one-day strike, a judge is backing efforts to eliminate 5,000 jobs.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's state budget will be a crippling blow to working people--at the same time as it diligently protects the interests of the rich.

Some 15,000 teachers protested the Los Angeles Unified School District's demands for higher class sizes, layoffs and cuts in teacher pay and health benefits.

Over 800 leaders and activists in United Teachers Los Angeles began preparations for a possible strike at the union's recent leadership conference.

With his death, comedian George Carlin left behind a wealth of hilarious observations on human behavior--and razor-sharp barbs aimed at the U.S. government.