Labor leader calls for end of layoff crisis
Gonzalez spoke of a growing sense of community desperation over the massive personnel cut that will put one in five teachers out of work June 30 and drive up class sizes to new heights come September.
“We can’t just take a hard line and say, ‘rescind the layoffs.’ We let this play out as long as we could…,” said Gonzalez, head of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council.
“It doesn’t make any sense to play a game of chicken, it’s not going to work on either side.”
Gonzalez said she was taking an unprecedented step personally in urging union representatives to sit down with district officials to reach an
