[Editor’s Note: Here is the controversial 300-word anti-United Parents of Culver City letter sent this month by the LAUSD teachers union to Culver City voters, as it was punctuated. The return address was listed as www.utla.net]
[img]2228|exact|||no_popup[/img]
Mr. Fletcher
By Warren Fletcher
October 2013
Vote for School Board Candidates
Karlo Silbiger, Claudia Vizcarra and Vernon Taylor
Culver City Unified School District
Dear UTLA Member:
This November 5, you have the opportunity to elect three union-supported candidates to the School Board of CCUSD. UTLA is reaching out to you on behalf of our sister locals, the Culver City Federation of Teachers and the Association of Classified Employees, CTA/NEA. A “parents union” is out to take over the CCUSD School Board and put into place an anti-union agenda. The outcome of the School Board elections will have serious consequences for Culver City and beyond.
Karlo Silbiger, Claudia Vizcarra and Vernon Taylor all support the labor/management partnership that Culver City’s unions have developed to end counter-productive adversarial relations and, most significantly, bring about advances in student achievement. Karlo is an incumbent member of the School Board, he teaches at Animo Venice High School. Claudia is a parent of two students in Culver City’s schools and Chief of Staff to LAUSD School Board Vice President Steve Zimmer. Vernon is a businessman who is extensively involved in his children’s schools and has played a leadership role in youth activities.
Karlo, Claudia and Vernon are fair-minded and committed community servants. As School Board members they will promote the kind of partnership unionism in CCUSD that can only occur when principled leadership deeply understands and truly values the work school employees carry out on behalf of students.
Do not let the well-funded forces that unfairly target teacher unions win on November 5. Please vote for Karlo Silbiger, Claudia Vizcarra and Vernon Taylor, and tell your family and friends about their campaigns.
Please exercise your right and vote.
(Signed)
Warren Fletcher
UTLA President
MJ Roberts
UTLA/NEA Vice President &
Political Officer
Marco A. Flores
UTLA-PACE Chairperson
