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Los Angeles moved one step closer to a strike Friday when mediation efforts ended and the L.A. Unified School District filed an unfair labor practice charge against United Teachers Los Angeles for allegedly refusing to participate in good faith.

The two sides now move to a process called fact-finding. Each side has to select a representative to the fact-finding panel; then, the state鈥檚 Public Employment Relations Board selects a chairperson. The three-person panel has 30 days to submit a nonbinding report. The district will then be free to impose its last offer, and the union will be free to strike.

In a statement after Friday鈥檚 third mediation session, the district said the union sought to end mediation after the first session.

鈥淏y UTLA鈥檚 own admission, the only reason UTLA participated in mediation was to ensure that it could move quickly to a strike. UTLA has never negotiated in good faith,鈥� the district said.

The district said the union鈥檚 demands would bankrupt L.A. Unified 鈥渁nd lead to the unprecedented layoffs of about 12,000 employees, including teachers.鈥�

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In its own statement, the union said it had made a good-faith effort to reach an agreement, 鈥渂ut unfortunately LAUSD officials did not do the same, failing to offer any substantial proposals to reinvest in our schools.鈥�

鈥淭he district thinks they can buy us off with a modest pay raise, but our fight has never been just about salary,鈥� union president Alex Caputo-Pearl said in the statement.

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Statement from General Counsel David Holmquist: Today, the Los Angeles Unified School District filed an unfair labor practice charge against UTLA for refusal to participate in good faith in the statutory impasse procedures.

鈥� L.A. Unified (@LASchools)

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