[3] Former LA Mayor Richard Riordan was negotiating the merger as a member of both boards of directors.
[4] The combined organization would have operated 30 schools with over 12,000 students, however the deal fell through over financial concerns and other complications.
UTLA filed three unfair labor practice (ULP) charges with California’s Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in August 2015 that accuses LA Alliance of retaliation and refusing to meet with union organizers.
[7] In October 2015, PERB asked the court for injunctive relief (at this time there were four ULP’s on file).
[8] The Los Angeles County Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order on October 30 and ordered LA Alliance to not “coerce or ask teachers about their positions on unionization, must allow organizers to come onto school grounds, cannot block emails from the union, and must stay 100 feet away from UTLA organizers.”[9] Judy Burton, a long time Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) employee, left the district in 2003 to help found LA Alliance.