I Teach In Los Angeles. Anti-Semitism Has Taken Over Our Union.
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I Teach In Los Angeles. Anti-Semitism Has Taken Over Our Union.

UTLA has abandoned its core mission of protecting teachers’ rights and dignity in favor of anti-Semitic rhetoric and divisive politics.

Barry Blisten

When I was growing up in Los Angeles, the bumper stickers proclaimed “Work Union, Live Better.”

For more than two decades as an educator, I lived by those words, serving actively in the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), even representing my colleagues in the House of Representatives.

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