Now, we have a bifurcated system pitting one against the other, with UTLA still pulling power plays that will likely end the way the 1989 strike did: with short-term salary wins for teachers, celebrated as a victory for the union, but later cutbacks to address the real funding deficits, and teachers and students caught in the crosshairs of an entrenched combative relationship between the union and the school board.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times