A doctor’s fight for Filipino veterans p. 5 From Amazing Grace to the Marley Festival p. 9 Influential geriatric and forensic psychiatrist, Stephen L. Read, MD dead at 71 p. 15
UTLA Teachers Ratify Contract,
But Say Fight is Not Over By Mark L. Friedman, RLn Contributor
San Pedro area UTLA teachers joined thousands of other teachers and supporters in downtown Los Angeles. Photo by Raphael Richardson
When Politics Interferes with Health Care Former Heir to Molina Healthcare Sabotaged by Company
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Rather than a traditional labor contract focused on wages and benefits, the agreement between the Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers of Los Angeles after a six-day teachers strike was hailed Tuesday by LA Mayor Eric Garcetti as a first step toward addressing class sizes, reinvestment in existing schools, employee compensation and other issues. But the strike was so much more for those on the picket line. The great teachers strike of 2019 will be known for its massive rallies of tens of thousands of people, its solid picket lines at more than 1,000 schools and the 15,000 parents, students, community members and other unionists who walked them daily. Contract gains include: • The contract extends through 2021-22 school year • A 6 percent pay increase, 3 percent retroactive, 3 percent ongoing, • LAUSD can no longer unilaterally raise class sizes to save money, • More counselors, librarians and nurses will be hired. Three hundred more nurses will be hired through 2021, and 77 more counselors in middle and high schools • Class sizes will gradually decrease across three years by at least one student per year. [See UTLA, p. 8]
By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
profitable part of health care. The firing stunk because the Molina brothers were the inheritors of their father’s legacy of providing quality healthcare to traditional health insurance and Dr. J. Mario Molina was vocal in his support of the Affordable Care Act. The only new information to come out in the Los Angeles Times reporting are the lengths Molina Healthcare went to cripple Golden Shore Medical [See Molina, p. 2]
January 24 - February 6, 2019
ILWU members show solidarity with teachers in front of San Pedro High School. Photo by Mark L. Friedman.
The Los Angeles Times report exposing the open animosity between Molina Healthcare and Golden Shore Medical Group founder and former Molina Healthcare CEO Dr. J. Mario Molina this past December shouldn’t have been surprising. The circumstances under which he and his brother, members of the family that founded the company, were dismissed two years ago, stunk, regardless of company pronouncements that it was a “business decision” to focus on a more
Dr. J. Mario Molina, founder of Golden Shore Medical Group was ousted from Molina Healtcare, a company his father founded.
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